Quotes About Opportunity

Female directors, directors of color are a big thing for me, which are both important voices and potent voices that need to be heard. That's how I want to engage myself as an actor going forward.

College is a magic time. Yes, youre young and fickle, but you want to be part of this college experience... Then you graduate from that. You have your first job, moving to a new city.

If you put yourself around people that want to be productive, that want to make the most of what they have, then the sky's the limit.

As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.

Doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican in Michigan. We want jobs in Michigan.

As a woman in Canada, I get to do whatever I want to do and I'm used to that. I'm used to not having my government tell me my life is going to be restricted because I'm female.

My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York.

There's one rule that I have on my movies, which is that anything that you want to do, you can do. But! There's a flip side to that, which is that anything I want you to do, give it a try also.

Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.

I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box.

I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn't want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.

The natural state of man is to want to be free. To have opportunities. To have choices.

To ensure assimilation we want to ensure that it works. Assimilation, an important word. Integration and upward mobility.

People are waiting in line for 15 years before they get rejected, O.K.? That's why people don't want to invest in America.

I live for challenges. In my career, all I want to do is try to challenge myself and have a varied career.

We've got something special going here. We want to keep it going. You don't have many opportunities like this, and the window of opportunity for us is now.

I'd read about Los Angeles and this fact stuck in my mind: that the city gained 1,000 new people every day. In 1956! A thousand people every day! I felt: 'I want to be part of that.

I'm not interested in going after a part. I think if someone wants me for a part and approaches me then I'll take it on a case-by-case basis and see what that part is.

We're Americans. We celebrate success. We just don't want the game to be rigged.

I mean, who wants to trudge through life, doing everything just right? Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.

If you have written something that the film people want, like a book, it does give you a way in.

Most actors want to sink their teeth into amazing material.

Some films I say no to and they end up working very well, but I don't care, I just want to do something exciting.

There's always risk. But I'm going to come in and play hard. I want to come in and contribute.