Quotes About Opportunity

Employers don't want to hire single moms with kids, because if the kid's sick then they can't work, and it goes on and on and on. It's really incredibly difficult to find a job in that situation.

Playing for the Kansas City Monarchs was like my school, my learning, my world. It was my whole life.

I'm curious when I look across the dial Monday through Friday, you know, where are the other female black anchors?

The first MLB game I did was a Monday Night game, and no one really knew I was doing it. So walking into the clubhouse, I tried to introduce myself to people like, 'Hey, I'm in the booth.' And they were kind of confused, like, 'You're a female, I don't understand.'

Money you lose you can always make back. But even five minutes of time lost is gone forever.

There's enough money for everybody. See, I can't do what Yachty does. But then again, Yachty can't do what I do.

Money is the great equalizer.

First and foremost, at drama school it gets drilled into you that you say yes to anything. If they say, can you tap-dance with a monkey on your head in your audition, you say yes.

My first job out of CalArts was performing monologues at the Women of Faith conferences across the country.

What happens is, you write a spec, people get it, they see your writing, they see you're good, they bring you into their office, and they say, 'Boy, that spec was really good - we'll never make that in a million years. We have rights to the board game of Monopoly. What do you think about a Monopoly movie?'

I am not the one for monotony. I am all for chances and its every medium, every genre that I want to explore.

I always wanted to play a monster, and I also wanted to work with Wes Craven.

With MTV2, every fighter is exposed to millions of people, and they won't have to take a monster pay cut to do so.

If you were born white, you automatically have a monstrous advantage educationally, economically, culturally, and within the society.

I'm personally committed to improving Montana's economic future.

My first TV job was on an episode of 'Hannah Montana'... Since then, I've been fortunate to end up on shows that are just such a high quality, where the writing and material is incredible.

I get the job with the 49ers, and I'm four years removed from my high school coaching days, and I'm going to be coaching Joe Montana, and I'm going, 'How do I approach this? How am I going to do this?'

The opportunity I had growing up in Montana isn't the opportunities for a whole lot of people.

If I had the opportunity to buy the latest movie that's out that month and watch it on the comfort of my big screen TV, I would pay for that.

I would fight every month. Think about the finances I would have. That would be financial freedom.

When I say there should not be a BET channel or a Black History Month, I'm saying we deserve more. I just hope people understand that I'm not judging; I'm coming from experience.

I went to Carnegie Mellon for a year and a month or two, and then I dropped out because I got a movie. I didn't anticipate ever leaving school - I was a really serious drama student - and then that happened, and my life sort of took a turn.

You gotta know when it's your time. You might wake up one day like, 'Damn, I just feel good,' but you've been feeling like that for a whole month. That's your season.

When I played 2 months in county cricket, I learnt a lot.