Quotes About Opportunity

I get a lot of dramas, but I'd like to do a romantic comedy type of movie; that'd be a nice step for me. No more screaming or running or shooting... for one movie where I can just be in love with a boy.

You can be the lead in a movie just for the sake of being a lead in a movie, or you can just be in a good movie.

There are so few roles out there. And even if it is a film that could be led by a black actress, how many times is that film going to get funded? Let's just be real. But it's not just black people. It's Asians, it's Hispanic people if you're not Salma Hayek. It's hard. It's hard to get films funded.

I want challenges. I want to compete. I don't want it to always be easy. I don't want it to always just be a few of us girls. I want there to be competition.

'American Idol' gives people really wonderful opportunities, and they shouldn't take flak for what people do with that opportunity after they leave the show. A lot of casting rooms I was in, that was the only thing on my resume, and people would just be like, 'Oh, here's Katie Stevens. Another 'American Idol' girl who thinks she could be an actor.'

I don't want to just be the guy to dump the ball off to or the guy who can do the checkdowns.

I think to be - for me to be an American is - you know, it's one of the greatest things in the world for - you know, for me just because I've been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world.

My heart is in television, just because it's been so good to me.

I'm just kind of taking what I get and making the best out of it, honestly.

I don't have any great detail or logic or exact point that I look for in a film. It's just if I get a good sense from it and I feel that there is something interesting that we may be able to do with it, then I just kind of go for it.

I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.

I just kind of fell into acting.

I want to go to college, obviously go to London and just kind of figure out the rest of my life.

Escape' really helped launch my career as a writer/director, so from there I just kind of took off on my own.

When I was a kid, it was just a wild dream to think that I would've had a career like this, and I really didn't think that was possible. But things just kind of started to roll, and I was caught up in it, and I went with it.

You can't control where you are born, and when you're growing up, until you've seen something else, you're just living your life.

I'm just looking for good work. I just really love acting, and I'd like to jump on something that's really exciting for me.

I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.

I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up 'Backstage' magazine auditions and grinding.

It's crazy. I couldn't believe it going from 'EastEnders' to 'X-Men.' I was just looking to leave and get any job, so when I actually got the job, I was in dreamland.

We'll open for anyone, we are just looking to play.

I'm just looking forward to going out there and getting the opportunity to show that I'm a starting guard in this league and I can compete with the other starting guards in this league and compete at a high level.

It's cliche, but everybody says, 'We're all one song away,' and it's so true. The difference between me and the guy down the street busking with his guitar case open is just one song.

Talent can pop up anywhere in the world, it's not just one city block.