Quotes About Opportunity

It would be great to go to school all year and do movies during the summer, but it doesn't work that way. I'm not Julia Roberts, so I have to be flexible.

I fell into music, but I just needed to find the right moment to jump into acting.

People have to free their imaginations and realize everyone can do something, on a large or a small scale, depending on their ability. Those who can do a lot because of their position and potential should jump right in there.

I'd jump to do a film with Aamir Khan. Aamir thinks through things before starting a project.

Through e-commerce, women have found a means to jump over cultural and traditional lack of available time for remunerated activities.

There's nothing more exciting as an actor than getting to do something that you're not entirely sure that anyone would let you do, and getting to take a big jump in a completely different direction.

Really, even in this whole Obama initiative, and everything that's going on with the economy, the only way to jump start it is we have to give each other opportunity. That's the only way to make it work.

That's the great thing about being an actor, you know, you can just jump to different jobs.

I like doing what I do, but I like having the opportunity to do different things, and obviously comedy would be a fun jump. I've just been lucky enough to stay working. In my case, playing intense roles or playing character roles is something that people will hire me for, but yeah, I'd like somebody to think I'm funny. I guess we all do, right?

When something is so hot, I don't want to just jump on it right away. I want to take it home and make sure I give it my best shot.

I've never seen anything that I didn't want to jump off of.

Seriously, if 'Superbad' doesn't happen, I don't think 'Jump Street' ever happens.

If you can jump, you can jump.

For me to get a lead role in a real movie is something to jump at. It's not like I get to do that all of the time.

When I was a kid, my dream was to be an actress and to be able to jump from one world to another, to disappear into roles, that people wouldn't recognize me from one movie to another. So I feel very lucky that I have the opportunity to live that dream.

I was my father's son and my mother's daughter. There was never any time when I felt I wasn't equally capable - whether it was being the only girl in the county who could hit a jump shot in basketball or playing first base in the baseball with the boys. I was always encouraged to do whatever I wanted to do.

As a director, just to be able to jump in to do something that's different, and to explore comedy and be challenged by that, is great. Some directors never get that opportunity.

I'm a little Italian girl from New Haven who, as an actor, gets to jump classes through language.

Once acting hit me, once that bug hit me, I just... took the jump and dove right in.

It's very important for me to show younger kids that when opportunities are there, you have to jump on them.

When the world says, 'Jump,' you gotta jump. It's like me moving to America when I was 29. I just did it. And now it's a home. You can't plan those things.

Anytime I get a chance to work with the guys from the WWE, it's a chance I jump at if I can.

It was hard because every kid from high school wants a chance to make the jump to the minors to see what they can do. But in the end, it wasn't difficult for me because I wanted to come to Rice. I could learn a lot more by coming here.

When I left university, I didn't want to jump into anything right away. Music certainly wasn't a burning ambition.