Quotes About Opportunity

Central Michigan was the one FBS team that recruited me hard.

I didn't graduate. I was doing theater in Michigan the summer after my junior year and just moved on to New York.

I haven't had a chance to pick where I wanted to play since 2007 when I chose to go to Michigan State.

Michigan was the place that people used to move to from all around the world.

Broadway, in my opinion, is a microcosm of America. Those challenges that we have in our country, I think we still have those challenges on the Broadway stage. I think there are far too few African-American directors working on Broadway.

I enjoy any chance to get in front of a microphone in a role. I'll do it.

And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.

You put a microphone in my hand on live TV, and that's just an opportunity for me to get ahead in life. That's the way I look at it.

In the early '80s, I happened to find myself in the vicinity of people who would work for Microsoft five years later.

Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.

Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.

When Facebook acquired Oculus, the game changed immediately. You saw big companies jumping in. You saw people like Google getting fully committed, and then Microsoft came along with HoloLens - there was a lot of stuff that people were doing before, but now the space really ignited.

Microsoft is a much bigger company than Qualcomm - a much bigger company - and there were a few days where I thought, 'I don't know if I can do this. It's huge.' My job was to come into the company and grow new businesses, and I thought, 'I'm not sure,' but it's all worked out pretty well.

I think few people in their lifetime have the chance to be involved in something like the creation of Microsoft - that's always going to be something I'm known for.

As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.

If you are a banker... you can do that for all your life, but if you are a footballer once you hit your mid 30s, you have to find something else to do.

Our economy grows from the middle out, not the top down.

I think I've shown that I can get up the middle, create some separation, and catch the ball.

I didn't grow up to become a mechanic - but some of my classmates did. And they've been able to build good, middle class lives for themselves and their families.

I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working class, just below middle class, a great family of wonderful values. The idea of me having a chance for a law degree was enticing. Enticing to me but also very enticing to my family.

Income inequality has become so prevalent in the U.S. that examples of its negative impact on the middle class are as common as Kanye West saying something cringeworthy in the media.

I grew up in the middle class.

I want to help the middle class.

They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn't inherit any money from them. But I inherited something far better - the real opportunity to accomplish my dreams.