Quotes About Opportunity

I was very surprised that they would ask a foreign actress to be Lady Macbeth, but I felt it was an opportunity that I couldn't miss. Having the opportunity to play Shakespeare in English - that wouldn't come twice.

One thing I never thought I would get to do is end up on 'The Daily Show,' not once, but twice.

I believe opportunity doesn't knock twice!

A lot of people don't want to hire disabled actors. They think you're going to take twice as long over a shot, or they don't want have to put up a ramp for disabled access. They think, 'Why would I do that when I can just hire an able-bodied actor to play the disabled character?'

I won Money in the Bank twice, and then I cashed it in to become Champion. I was Champion. No one can ever take that away from me.

You cannot say no to a club like Man City. I did not think twice.

As the saying goes, even a broken clock is right twice a day; that doesn't mean you should run out and buy one.

When I see all the boys in the top jobs across our leagues, I'm like: 'Oh my God, the only woman sitting on top of the pile and I'm only there twice a week!' It's brilliant!

Before 'Twilight' was greenlit, I had four projects at four studios. I worked super-hard on all of them, but 'Twilight' was greenlit first.

i've made room for you, she said. if you want it, there's room.

There is never a bad time to start a business - unless you want to start a mediocre one.

We're not really good at knowing what we want, and we are quick to say 'this sucks'. That's where the opportunity lies.

One thing is a fairly simple and straightforward thing. I don't long to direct. I really want to get some good parts.

It's okay if it takes two or three years for something really good to come along, but I don't want to wait ten years for something great to come along.

I don't know of an actor that the Coen brothers would come to and say, "Hey, I've got a movie for you to be in, if you want to do it," that would say, "No." That's the truth.

Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion.

After you've done the first feature, then you have heck of a difficult time getting your second film off the ground. They look at your first film and they say, "Oh well, we don't want you anymore."

I'm turning 58, and you get that kind of weird, old-guy feeling of you don't have an infinite number of years left and if there's anything you want to say or represent, it's time to try it.

Who cares about 17-21 year olds? Jack Myers does, and you should, too, if you want a front row seat on where the future of business and civilization is going.

If a good visionary wants to jump on board with that and I see their vision correctly and I like it and I like the script, I would absolutely do it but I have to read the script first.

There are no gatekeepers. So all the things we want people to cast us in, we can just make ourselves.

Sometimes you have to do a role that might not be the most interesting, but it will set you up for doing roles that you want to do.

Anything you want for life is available to you, the universe is just waiting for you to take the necessary action(s) before it gives you what you want.

If you pray for things, I am proof that they can happen. I want to repay the manager's faith in bringing me back. (on re-signing for Liverpool)