Quotes About Opportunity

I did some really big films like 'Vaastav' with Sanjay Dutt, 'Pukar' with Anil Kapoor, and 'Jab Pyar Kissi se Hota Hai' with Salman Khan. But I didn't make any effort to cash in on their success.

Just because you get a show and it gets on the air doesn't mean jack. It certainly means that you'll be considered for stuff, but you've got to fight and claw to get every job.

What was cool about my career, Jack LaLanne gave me my first break on TV. I was his co-host.

If you're out after 6 o'clock, have a jacket on, because you might go somewhere. People say, 'Oh, I ain't dressed for it.' But if you have a jacket on, you can go anywhere.

Jackie was speaking at a drugstore, and I said, 'I'm not going to get this opportunity again, so I better take my chances and listen to Jackie Robinson now.' Little did I know, I got front row seats, and next to me was my father.

It's not every day you get to be in a movie about Jackie Robinson, so you want to do it as right as you can.

For many years, even after Jackie Robinson, baseball was so segregated, really. You just didn't expect us to have a chance to do anything. Baseball was meant for the lily-white.

Being offered the role in the Jackie Chan film was amazing. I got to do a fight scene with Jackie Chan.

Big up Samuel L. Jackson, because here's a guy who has broken down doors.

I have dreams of working with some of the greatest to ever do it, including Sade, Beyonce, Janet Jackson, Babyface, Smokey Robinson, and Timbaland.

Greg Jackson, he gave me hope you know. He told me listen, you're absolutely not done yet. You have a lot of work to do. If you want to start everything from the beginning, just come to Albuquerque. Come to my clinic. He's a very smart guy and he's a very educated coach, and I enjoy working with him.

We play make-believe and dress up for a living. One goes, one doesn't go, whatever. I don't understand how you can get bitter or jaded. We're just so lucky to get to do this.

Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

I want my kids to graduate from high school. But that's not enough. I also want them to go to college. Why? Because rich people's kids go to college. And if that's good enough for them, it's good enough for my kids. Because you know what? College graduates don't tend to go to jail as frequently as nongraduates.

For our kids to go to school, they must be alive, and for adults to work, they must not be in jail.

It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.

We have to give people dreams; we have to give people hope. In terms of government, in terms of society, that's our goal. You can't have a group of people that don't dream, that see themselves as dead or in jail.

I would love to have Mystikal on Strange Music when he gets outta jail.

Leaving Def Jam was kind of a blessing in disguise because we can make whatever record we want.

My parents immigrated to this country from Jamaica with no more than a fifth-grade education.

I knew that Jamaica Inn was going to make me a star.

Doing business in Jamaica is not easy, but it is rewarding.

For a family to have five kids and to have emigrated from the West Indies, my father from Jamaica and my mother from Montserrat - it's not easy to provide for five kids let alone put three kids in AAA hockey, one being a goalie, and put two daughters through university.

My mum came to Britain from Clarendon, in the south of Jamaica, to make a better life for her family.