Quotes About Opportunity

I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.

If I have a free day, sometimes I'm just reading scripts all day. They pile up.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

Our own objective is to make Africa overcome its difficulties, to make Africa a continent of hope, to make Africa a continent of the future, to make Africa a pillar of the world in which we live - not seen as a problem but seen as an opportunity.

In many countries, IT is a pillar of growth and attracts a lot more competitive talent.

I sell bikinis. I sell comforters. I sell Cam'ron pillows. I sell a bunch of things off my likeness, and it all came from music, so it's definitely a blessing.

I can't tell you how good it is to go from 'Homeland' to be lucky enough to find 'The Blacklist' at the right time. It literally came at the very end of pilot season when I thought there was nothing left.

I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.

I always wanted to be on 'Glee.' As soon as the pilot aired, I said I needed to be on the show.

I could have just invited a bunch of my pilot buddies to go, and we would have had a great time and come back and had a bunch of cocktails. Instead, we wanted to bring in everyday people and energize everyone else around the idea of opening up spaceflight to more and more of us.

Like, to do a pilot, you don't know what's going to happen with it.

If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.

As actors, if you get a pilot on HBO or on USA, your odds are good that it's going to get picked up.

When I got the offer to do 'Weird Ernie' in the pilot, I was living in New York, and somebody had made a mistake, and they made an offer that was supposed to be $2,500 for the job, but they offered $25,000. I couldn't turn that down. I'd never heard of anything like that!

After 'Entourage,' it completely opened up my casting within the industry. People saw me for a lot of roles that I hadn't been seen for before. Older roles. I went out this pilot season for a lot of lawyers and doctors. And cops - which I haven't quite mastered yet; I find that quite difficult.

I was 14 or 15 when I moved to L.A. permanently, but I had been out for pilot season for a few years before that.

I had five years in the business in Canada, and then I came down to the States in February of 2010. I had a good pilot season. I started getting guest star work. I started to get bigger stuff.

I've pitched many things that have not gone, but every year, I'm in that pilot game like a lot of other writers in Hollywood.

What the hell is pilot season? It's an artificial boundary that makes no sense, and it makes you do things under duress.

Pilot season isn't perfect, and it certainly is a very difficult time. But pilot season does work for us.

When you do a pilot, you can't always tell what you have.

I'd love to play a commercial pilot on screen.

When you're doing a pilot, you don't know where it will end up, and then you're being put up with the best of the best.

Literally, my first audition after 'The Life Aquatic' was for the 'Criminal Minds' pilot.