Quotes About Opportunity

I had a season of U23s football and I played in almost every game. For me, at that time I needed to move on. I didn't need to play another year of U23s and it wouldn't have helped me.

My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.

I grew up in Oldham and moved to Manchester and London. I didn't go to drama school. I just did a B-Tech.

And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not.

I moved to L.A., and people said that I would never find work, that I would never find good friends, and I feel like I was fortunate enough to find the work, but it wouldn't mean anything unless I had a group of people who could appreciate it.

I honestly believe that if you're not growing, then you are taking the space that somebody else would get if you moved forward.

I then moved to LA when I was 16... but before that I had done a play on Broadway.

I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.

When I was 15, I was scouted at the mall by Elite Model Management. I started to go to New York on the bus in high school, which was about four hours door-to-door from my hometown, until I moved to New York and lived in models' apartments all over.

When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace.

I moved to Chicago when I was 28, and I wasn't completely idealistic about going to Second City and making a living from comedy, but I knew it would be great for the resume.

My first job in a country band was after I moved to California.

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college.

I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.

I was probably given a bit too much at an early age. I got some big moves and played in big games.

I'm always a fan of good business moves.

If there's a great opportunity, obviously we're going to do it early. But the main thing is, you want to do great moves when they are available. But often the best move is not a move that is done right away.

I always take bold moves. So it can have great return but with great risk.

There are decisions I could have made, moves I could have made, that would have got me seen more. I do it because I enjoy the craft and the challenge of trying to make something that doesn't exist come alive, and that's what I'm in it for.

Yeah, I mean, you always work hard, and certainly there's opportunities to do some bold moves, and sometimes they pay off for you and sometimes they don't.

Sometimes you have to make a movie to make money.

I remember, as I was hovering around 40, I thought each movie would be my last, really.