Quotes About Opportunity

I'd like to get more bit-acting roles. I don't know if my talent would allow for a long dialogue, but I could definitely knock out three lines. I'd kill it.

Of course there's going to be times when I'm going to have to step up and knock down corner 3s, but I don't want to settle all the time.

Being a kid with black skin in South Central Los Angeles, in a part of the world where opportunity didn't necessarily knock every day, is what gave me this sensibility and drove me to explore my fascination with art.

Once the opportunities knock on your door, you've got to try and go get them. If it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen. But at the same time, you've got to keep going.

When they take away some of our main guys, I just find myself open sometimes and knock down shots.

I'm a great believer that if you knock on enough doors and stay at the level maybe an opportunity comes.

If I keep playing well for Leicester, all I can do is keep trying to knock on the door.

You don't want to be ball chasing or really forcing the issue because that looks bad. You've got to just take what they give you and have an opportunity to knock down some shots.

Anybody in the UFC has a chance to knock you out.

I definitely don't look at myself as a 3-point shooter, but when we're playing three big guys, I find myself on the perimeter a lot, and they leave me alone. I've got to knock it down or do something with it.

I just got to be ready to knock down shots.

My grandfather didn't come to Canada for his own sake. He didn't leave behind his family to cross the Atlantic and be knocked to the canvas. He came here so that his son, my father, would have a better life.

I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.

Hollywood's not knocking on our door. They're banging down the door with a sledgehammer.

I can imagine they're asking for someone, and someone is asking for me. Everyone knows I keep asking for Wonderboy, and I will - I'll keep knocking on the door.

I think I have an instinct of, like, the right record comes knocking at my door and says, 'Want to come out to play?' and I go.

Wake Forest came knocking on the door, and I accepted that offer. It changed my life completely.

When Manchester United and Jose Mourinho come knocking at the door, it is an opportunity of a lifetime and one that I could not turn down.

The guy who runs Big Day Out doesn't like us for some reason; I don't even know why. We do all the other festivals, and we enquired about it. Who knows, maybe he'll eventually crack, but maybe not. We're just going to keep knocking on his door late at night saying, 'Come on, dude!'

If Manchester United come knocking, you can't turn that down.

People are knocking on my door, saying they deserve a chance and when you do, do your talking out there. Actions speak louder than words.

Opportunity only knocks so many times.

If Jimmy McGovern knocks and you are offered a part, you don't say, 'can I ease myself into it?'

I got my big movie break thanks to an emergency in a five star hotel bathroom. I was attending a film party, wearing a kurta pajama. At the washroom, I could not open the pajama knot and was screaming for help. Pahlaj Nihalani was there and he helped me out. And before I knew it, I was in front of the camera for my first feature film, 'Aag Hi Aag!'