Quotes About Opportunity

The scripts that I've been getting are of epic proportion. People want me to lead the big armies.

Once, I had so many scripts coming to me that I could hardly read them all.

I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.

A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.

I've been amazed watching people who are not ready with their scripts when they're getting a lot of attention.

I can say yes to some directors without even reading a script. But the first-time directors I've worked with, the scripts have not been perfect, but they had something that I liked.

I will do a film if there is a good scope for acting. I am looking for good scripts.

With the performances, I have been very fortunate to pick things and to find scripts that I really love. I always try to do something that I haven't done before.

Good scripts, which are apt for me, eventually come to me.

Audiences want to watch heroine-oriented films, and even writers are writing scripts for women. I am very happy to see this change.

I am doing films that are content-oriented and where I have the scope to perform. Rarely do such scripts happen.

'EastEnders' changed everything. I was a jobbing actress living in Stepney, and I was on the dole at one point. Then people started to send me scripts, which was always my dream.

I choose films based on scripts.

I was drawn to gay parts because of their scripts, what the roles offered.

New York came after me aggressively and that's what sealed the deal.

I was only 26 when I started my career. Those days I only wanted to work. When my films did not work, I didn't know what to do. But I never went to anyone for work. Work came in search of me.

I said I would like to do some theatre, so people started searching for some jobs for me, and I didn't think it would be the lead role in 'Equus.'

Everybody has their due season. And it's all about what you do in your season.

We have come to Earth in this great season in the long history of mankind. It is a marvelous age - the best of all.

I was at Roma for two years, had two great seasons there, and everyone told me to stay, but it was in my mind to come and be successful in England.

I'm always happy for work and feel absolutely lucky to be on something that has continued for a couple of seasons.

There was a time when I said I wouldn't do something like that but I've seen so many of my friends go on the 'All Stars' seasons and they seem to be having a lot of fun for the most part.

Maybe NBA teams won't want me and maybe I'll play in Europe the last one or two seasons.

I have decided that I want one or two seasons in England before the end of my career, and I want it to be at Liverpool.