Quotes About Opportunity

Every person - we want to make sure that every person who wants a job will indeed get one.

Our message of opportunity and inclusion is, I think, a very powerful message that does indeed speak to Americans, but we've got to do a better job of listening.

I just stumbled into acting; my first choice indeed was music and sports.

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.

I'd just as soon do a big-budget movie as an independent one.

I definitely think independent film is very exciting, and you get to sometimes take bigger risks. So that's always a challenge and something that I look forward to.

This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film.

I might do my own independent film, that my husband wrote for me, if all the ducks are in a row.

I've been fortunate to work with some amazing Asian filmmakers in independent film.

Let me tell you one thing: there is no more cutthroat place to be than an independent film. Disney is a cakewalk after that - that is no lie.

I'm always looking for interesting stories, and I feel in independent film there's more opportunity.

The amount of exposure you get in India as a musician in Bollywood is so much better than what one gets independently.

For five years I worked independently waiting for the right opportunity to present itself.

We always wanted to be a big infra player in India - in sectors such as energy, healthcare, education, locomotives, etc.

Even in Indian cinema, there is so much work that I have accepted because I'm comfortable and so much I have declined because I haven't been comfortable.

Alex, who I play on 'Quantico' - that part wasn't written for an Indian girl. So they changed her background to make her half Indian and half Caucasian.

I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.

I am a great believer in Indian entrepreneurship. There is a whole set of people doing so many exciting things.

We are not white-skinned, we are not like them. We do not look like them. Why do we need to act in Hollywood movies? And I don't even think that Indian actors here want to do English movies.

I would rather buy Indian equities than the S&P 500.

Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.

I don't compare myself with Freida Pinto. She has come a long way. She does only films in the West. I am open to do both - Indian films and films from the West.

I can't believe all this is happening to me, but I am definitely here to stay. And I am happy to be in Indian cinema.