Quotes About Opportunity

My view was, if I didn't like Boulder, I'd keep going west, except I never really wanted to live in the Bay Area.

I hone my craft. I keep going. I light a little fire under myself. I look around for roles that will challenge me. And I'm grateful for all the ones I get.

I believe I can do it, but one of the reasons I don't really get into the debate is people keep talking about a black James Bond: how a black man should play him.

All I can do is keep working, keep auditioning, keep talking to people - and whatever it takes to show other colors.

I turned goalkeeper. My father had been one and we had a goal in the back garden. He'd taught me a bit about it so I thought I'd give it a go. I didn't really know whether it was going to be a good choice or a bad one but I joined a small local team as a keeper and it turned out to be a really good decision.

When you're young it's boring to be a keeper.

Bernd Leno's injury has changed my career. Other great goalkeepers - such as Iker Casillas - have got their big opportunities when the first-choice keeper was injured.

I am a lucky boy. Being a keeper is something in me and which I enjoy doing.

If I have a keeper who makes a mistake in consecutive games and is dropped, when he plays again, there is pressure on him because that is the level of the game we are at.

My dream is to play for Arsenal, I've always said that and I believe I have everything that a keeper needs to play for Arsenal.

Keeping busy: This is a problem that you're glad to have.

I'm just back in line with every other actor looking for a job right now and keeping my fingers crossed.

Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.

Auditioning is a good thing; it keeps you humble.

I get to do all these really nice, little culty things. It seems to be the world that keeps inviting me back.

I think life is what you live every day, and it just keeps coming at you. You never know what it's going to be.

In the case of 'Thor,' it was just casting the best people for the part. Ken Branagh had the idea to cast Idris Elba as Heimdall, and we didn't blink at that chance to do it.

I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.

If the Kennedys had been barred from entering America after fleeing Ireland during the famine, my grandfather never would have been president.

It's funny: there's this idea where Kenny is only good because he can do what he wants, and he gets time. Well, everyone else through those doors had had time and opportunity. Why didn't they do anything special?

I worked with Kenny Omega in Japan. But we never wrestled each other.

I got my SAG card doing a Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial in Chicago.

I did some really bad plays at a children's theater in Kentucky where I'm from and went from there.

The spacing is so much different in the NBA... There's more spacing, more 1-on-1. I got more space to do work - something I didn't get to show at Kentucky.