Quotes About Opportunity

There are more second-, third-, fourth-, fifth- and so on in the big leagues than first-round picks.

I've been a lot of places and worked with a lot of different guys. High draft picks. Low draft picks.

You can't really be picky and choosy for your first lead role.

I feel like I've been picky through the years and would do one movie a year or one movie every two years, and I want to work a lot more. So if I can find something that just happens right away as a director, I'll do it if I really love it, but otherwise, I want to keep working as an actor and getting better.

It's important to read as much as you can because you never know when you will find the best script that you want to do next. I'm always quite picky in what I read and what I go for.

I don't quite have the luxury of cherry-picking - I have to see what comes my way. But I have always been picky.

I'm not going to be very picky. If something comes to me and I want to do it, I'll do it.

You can't really be picky when no one is offering you anything.

I'm not too picky. I'm not waiting, sitting around for the ideal and perfect role. I like to work, so I try to make the best of whatever opportunity comes up.

I would definitely like to work in India. It is just that I am quite picky when it comes to roles.

It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture.

My first audition was an open call and I had no picture and no resume - that's how clueless I was. I just thought I could show up.

If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

I did 'Dirty Picture' when I was only 24 years old. From there on, I kept on acting and learning about acting.

Why should I have my picture taken when I can get paid for it?

I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.

My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history.

You must adapt to the situation. This is where the pictures come from.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

If you want to make pictures and enjoy making them, you better go out and make something that a lot of people want to see. And then they'll turn you lose and let you make what you want. And then maybe you can do some of the things that you want to do. But as a beginner, you haven't got a chance.

The thing is that when you don't carry a camera, that's when you see pictures in particular, or at least that's when you think you see pictures in particular. When you do carry it, if you do see one on the occasion that you do, you can take it.

That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business.

I went there and helped him shuffle pictures of people, and one of the agents asked me if I was interested in acting. Of course, I was a little bit interested in it; I'm sure that's part of the reason I moved to L.A. even though I never admitted it to myself.

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.