Quotes About Opportunity

As a journeyman singer, I have to go to where the work is.

As I look out there and see the culture of baseball, a lot of blacks and Latins, it's given me a lot of joy to know that Jackie started that. If Jackie hadn't come in '47, me and Ron Santo wouldn't have played in Double-A and all those years in the big leagues.

I'm a risk-taker. Most of my career has not been a joyful experience, but it has been challenging. I like the dangers.

My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.

I would never judge anyone for going anywhere for money.

When morning comes, you would better find yourself saying: 'I have so many choices of what to do or what to leave - every morning, every day. I better judge for myself, and - go ahead and do it.'

To people who don't take women's cricket seriously, I'd say: just watch a game first, and then make your judgement.

My first job out of law school was as one of two women assistant U.S. attorneys in an office of 63 U.S. attorneys and the first woman to do criminal work appearing only before male judges. Scared? Every day of my life.

As I have consistently recommended, we desperately need to find more black judges, particularly females, who are chronically underrepresented in our courts across London and the U.K.

Be it judging or be it acting, yeah if something interesting comes my way even if it's judging for another show, I'll be open to it.

I have always wanted to work with Judy Dench, and that hasn't happened yet, so that would be fun.

I juggle so many hats that it takes something really special to convince me to get back to acting in films or TV serials.

I have the luxury of balancing and juggling films in different languages.

What a great situation to be in, juggling two shows, with films in between.

Once you get out there and start playing basketball, whether the NBA or college or whatever arena you are playing in or who you are playing in front of, the juices start going, and you want to just go out there and play to the best of your abilities.

I want to wait for a project that will excite my creative juices.

I want to do everything and be greedy in that way - film, TV, radio, theatre. If it's juicy work, I want it!

I'm very lucky because I don't half get some juicy jobs. But I can't tell you the number I've turned down in the past 20 years because I wanted to be at home, looking after my son. There was never any question about that. Alfie and I are dead close. I can't bear it when he's away.

That's an actor's dream to get something meaty and juicy and challenging to work on.

It's easy to diet or get off a diet when you've got a juicy role to play.

I'm starting the Juicy J Scholarship Foundation. I'm going to start doing a lot of different things trying to help out and give back.

You see these juicy roles, and 9 times out of 10, they'll go to a much more established actor. It's the nature of the business.

Juilliard gave me the ability to go and do classical, contemporary, comedy, drama, everything.

I applied to a few conservatories. I was sure that I wouldn't get in, and I didn't plan to go to N.Y. But then I got into Juilliard.