Quotes About Opportunity

When you get a chance to get a top five player, which doesn't come very often, you have to jump on it.

I adored my years playing Rodney McKay and I would jump at any chance to reprise the role!

I was told before that one of the hardest jumps to do, painlessly, is the one from playing clubs into playing arenas. I am completely aware of that now.

I'm the kind of guy that jumps at an opportunity.

I usually played out and out heavies. No one else 'saw' me in any other role. No one else had ever believed I could be anything but a heavy. It was a heavy in a picture with Clara Kimball Young that June Mathis saw me and decided to cast me as Julio. 'There is the man for Julio,' she said, 'He, and no one other.'

Yes, I went the junior-college route, but I was playing at some very good junior colleges.

When I started playing ball as a junior, I'm kind of glad that I was never good enough to be highly recruited.

I never went to drama school, but I was really lucky in that both my junior school and secondary school had brilliant drama departments.

After junior cricket, if the team wanted me to keep in a one-off/odd match or if anyone got injured, I was up for it. I kept in One-dayers and T20s.

When I was at Lakeridge High School, in my junior and senior years, my choir and theater department raised money so we could go to New York and see Broadway shows. It really changed my life.

Miss America paid for my junior and senior years in college.

Coming all the way from one scholarship offer, you know, Coach Bohl and Coach Vigen, they believed in me when I came out of junior college.

When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.

In junior high, some would've seen me as a professional, a lawyer, a doctor, an engineer. Others would've seen me in jail. All depends on who you talked to.

I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.

I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.

Once my junior year finished at Florida State, I won the Rhodes Scholarship and I was also projected as a second-round draft pick.

I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.

If something comes along that's really good, and I think I would be good for it, I'd be happy to do it. But not too many came along. I mean, they came along for the first, I don't know, 15, 18 films, but I didn't do that many. But then I didn't want to do the kind of junk I was seeing.

Film fests are an opportunity to see different kinds of films that you usually don't get to watch. When I'm part of a jury, then I get to judge films, but otherwise I attend festivals to watch two or three films a day and network with a gathering of cinema lovers from all over.

Women are capable of accomplishing just as much as men are but aren't always given the same attention and opportunity.

Adult and senior dogs have just as much love to give as younger ones and I encourage everyone to give an older dog a chance.

I don't just write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it because I was born to do this. I was given this gift, and I'm making the most of my opportunity.

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.