Quotes About Opportunity

I have a 50 per cent chance of still being able to compete as an able-bodied athlete. But if not, I will compete as a paralympian.

I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.

I'm just achieving goals left, right and centre, and I just feel incredibly lucky because I never thought it would happen.

I wanted to be the best mum I could be. I just wanted the means to be able to help myself. And, luckily for me, I had a Sure Start centre and I had adult education I could go back into.

I went to the Actors Centre in Australia, but I never thought that I'd move to India, let alone be in Bollywood.

I came to New York with $500. That was a lot of money because my allowance was 50 cents.

If you don't have the dollars and cents, you'll not be able to accomplish anything.

Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.

This young century will be liberty's century.

As a first-time CEO, I wasn't sure if I would scale to run IronPort long-term. But I wanted a legitimate shot at it.

It's important for a CEO to feel lucky.

I want little girls to believe that they can be CEOs.

There are woefully few women CEOs in the world, but there can be lots of them in films.

I know a lot of bands that will make their first record and get to a certain level, and then when the second record comes out, they can start where they left off as a headlining act playing in front of a certain number of people, or they can go back out and make a lot less money and open for people.

There's a moment when you come to a certain point, and if you make the leap you get to the big leagues. But if you back away, you get stuck.

But actors at a certain point take the best of what's available to them.

As an actor, you have to maximize your time, because you don't know what's going to happen in your 50s and 60s and 70s. It's like the career of an athlete: For many people, it ends at a certain point.

Once you reach a certain point in your career, every fight is a new big fight, biggest fight of your life, biggest fight of your career.

We all have things in which we look back and say, 'If I had a chance to do it all over again, I wouldn't do certain things.'

Certain things are very important for me while saying 'yes' to a script. One is obviously the role and its importance to the film. When I say this, I don't mean the length. And last but not the least - the director.

I had to play a certain way to get in the league. That's kind of where I came from. I wouldn't change a thing going back, I wouldn't change anything that happened.

If you don't train in a certain way because you think you won't play, you have to do more in the week to show why you deserve to play.

I was a senior in high school, and my mom saw on the news at work that they were having an open call in New York, and she thought it's for a musical, and maybe we should go and just sort of chalk it up to a new experience... And so, we did. We went.

Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.