Quotes About Opportunity

As an Asian actor, I would like once in my life to do just one Hollywood movie. It would be a memorable experience.

If there was another Dr. Quinn movie, I would do it in a heartbeat.

There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.

You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.

See, I'm fortunate that I get around a lot because of my movie business.

I wish I had been born 20 years earlier, so I could have been in the movie business in the 1970s.

My dream was to go to Hollywood and become a movie star, and it happened. This country is geared toward that. When an actor can become president, anything can happen.

I didn't come up in a culture or society that looked on me as a movie star. I was the bad guy. I was fortunate enough to be cast in some roles that weren't bad, were positive.

I've been on the board of UCLA Film and TV School, and I went to UCLA. I realized that the same movie theater that was there when I went to school, 30 years later is the same movie theater in the same condition. There was an opportunity to refurbish an existing room, and I jumped at the opportunity.

I can go to a movie theater and watch a movie I was in with an audience... but with television, the opportunity to meet the fans at Comic Con or any other situation, it's a chance to enter that circle; it's that sharing.

You can get good performances in quite sizable roles from people who have never been in front of a camera, people who maybe have never been in front of a movie theater.

I'm not a huge fan of scary movies, but I love doing them because your character arc gets condensed, and everything is elevated, and so you kind of have this amazing opportunity to go in many different places.

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

If Judd Apatow called me, I'd do it without thinking about it. I think he does really fun movies.

You want to accomplish everything; there's no limits to what you want to do. You want to do movies. You want to do modeling. You want to be an entrepreneur - you want to enter every aspect of the entertainment business.

The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Moving to Atlanta is one of the best things I did.

We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.

I fervently believe that education is the key to moving forward.

Moving forward, I don't really know what I want to do. There is an opportunity within the media for me, but I would like to give back to football in some way if I'm able to help.

Every start is an opportunity to get better and to learn how your body is feeling and what you need to do moving forward. It's been an evolution throughout the year.

Keep in mind that in 1975, when you became a cook, it was because you were between two things: you were between getting out of the military and... going to jail. Anybody could be a cook, just like anybody could mow the lawn.

So little done, so much to do.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.