Quotes About Opportunity

You have to keep performing and keep showing people that you are capable of playing at the higher league. Once you get that sniff, you never look back.

When some kids get a sniff of the first team at a big club, you see them change. They can become big-time, especially so if they happen to be captain of the youth team.

When I was hired to 'SNL,' I was 25 years old.

It's nice when I get offered small parts. But I really think that 'SNL' is what my skill set is best designed for.

'SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet.

'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.

I felt that it was cool to even get to the point where I was able to audition on the actual 'SNL' stage. Looking back on it, I can't believe that I wasn't more nervous.

I'm crazy lucky. I was trying to be a filmmaker. I was doing Second City classes as a way to be creative. I was a PA for a long time. I was working as an assistant editor on 'Iron Chef America' when I got 'SNL.' It was one of those situations where you're concentrating in one thing and the peripheral thing popped.

I'm not totally sure what I want to be doing, but it's so fun to be on 'SNL' because you get exposed to so many different people and so many different experiences. It's a cool, lucky way to break into the business.

Plenty of black people that I know have been on 'SNL,' and they haven't been utilized to the best of their abilities.

I was hired as an assistant at 'SNL' in 2002.

I would love to do 'SNL.'

President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob.

There is a little bit of snobbery with casting, and unless you're a really successful comedian like Ruth Jones, you don't get to be in the drama side of things.

Class and the snobbery it provokes still matter far too much in Britain, but we are a far more mobile society than we used to be.

When I was a young filmmaker starting out, I was really snobby about all the affirmative action for women filmmakers because I felt it should be about your talent, and I made a film that won awards, and people wanted me.

I used to mow grass and sell Christmas cards and shovel snow in order to raise the $25 to go to Boy Scout Camp in Osceola every year.

I just love the idea of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, whether it's the success of 'Cool Runnings,' which is the success of four guys from Jamaica who had never seen snow, or whether it's my success, just as a human being.

I played on frozen pitches, on snow. I had only a couple of years indoor before I went to England.

I think when it comes to basketball, there's so many different ways you can affect the game.

When you have 16 or 17 attempts, when you have so many opportunities to score in the first 60 or 70 minutes and you don't do it, the opponent can score. The opponent can hurt you.

Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.

I don't do anything I don't want to do. There are so many opportunities that come my way, but if there's something out there that I don't want to do, I truly don't do it, because I have to maximize my time. If there's truly an opportunity to be quiet and be by myself, I do it.

So many opportunities are born from not asking permission.