Quotes About Opportunity

My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976.

It's frustrating at times when you think you've earned a chance to play on the field and you're over there sitting on the bench. That's not the kind of player I am. I'm the kind of player who wants to be out there on the field and needs to contribute every minute of every game.

I've been given an amazing opportunity and I could not be more grateful. But I also know that all this will eventually die off. It's not real. It will go away and then you'll go away and then, I don't know, I'll be left sitting in some English hotel room.

Some of the best auditions I've ever had have been when my agent called and said, 'They want you 20 minutes ago, in an office in Century City, to see you for something.' I'm not sitting there thinking for a week and a half, before I'm supposed to go in front of a network president to do something. That just gives you time to be nervous.

In life, you have got to make the best of every situation; you have to keep going.

Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.

I responded that we needed a private sector to improve the market situation and make peoples lives easier.

My thing is to execute the given play, execute the game plan to the best of my ability. If the option is for me to make a play when I have to, I will. Or I'll put myself in the best situation to do so.

So, then you find yourself in a situation where you have to do things because they're on offer to you, because you don't have much self-respect left. You just can't say no, even to something that you've never done before. You just can't help yourself.

I think that pirates represent every person's ability to get up and leave their current daily situation and go on an adventure, and maybe to see things and do things they've never done before or even dreamed of doing.

Where I'm from, there's really not a whole lot going on... Because everyone is in the same situation, no one really sees it as an issue. I just knew it was a big world out there, and I wanted to experience it.

The reality is that the economic situation for millennials is not a good one.

Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.

I would love to do a biopic or a situational comedy.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

For me, one of the things that I get excited about is getting in situations I shouldn't be in.

Close scrutiny will show that most 'crisis situations' are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

Everyone has the opportunity to do a horror film. There's something great about it as an actor. You have to go to places you'd normally never go and be put in situations you would never be put into. You don't get the opportunity in a lot of films to have this kind of acting. It's an interesting challenge.

Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. Say no anyway, because it could lead you to greater opportunities.

You're put in certain situations and it kind of opens up those doors and it opens up your eyes to realize what your true calling was.

I didn't come from the worst of situations, and I didn't come into the best of situations. But I've appreciated the best situations. And I've made the best of the worst situations. I'm lucky to be where I am.

I would love to do more acting; I really would love to do it, particularly character acting. I'm a character type of actor; I love situations where I've got a bit of room to improvise on the character.

We're not handed situations based on our established likes and dislikes; we get what's available.

I've always been, with acting, very hesitant to get myself into situations where I would be accused of nepotism.