Quotes About Opportunity

Think about all the great boxers who have fought here, starting with Muhammad Ali. And as well as all that, I believe I will be the first boxer from Liverpool to appear at the Garden.

Harness mules and oxen, but give a horse a chance to run.

I was always asked to play roles where I was the contrasting or multicultural character. Sometimes that worked for me - often it didn't.

After finishing my business administration course, I had gone to look for a job in a multinational bank, but the interviewee said that I should become an actor.

Multinational brands, especially those with successful legacies, often struggle in emerging countries.

I'm grateful for the fact that I can choose from multiple genres and characters.

I get to shift multiple markets. I get to shift economies. It's extremely liberating. I breathe differently.

I'm very happy to have been a one-club man, but I wouldn't shoot down guys who have gone off and played in multiple clubs either because, essentially, it is an earning that people are after.

You have to be pretty fortunate to do multiple games and have a shot at medals.

Most teams won't really focus on one player because they've got multiple players to defend and that will open up a lot of things for me.

Both 'Dear Zindagi' and 'Hichki' did not come easily to me, I had to do multiple rounds of auditions.

My parents don't have a lot of money, and it was only when my mum's mum died that we could buy Fernandez, my first grand prix horse.

When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.

My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.

In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.

I get a lot of single mum roles - 'It's a Free World' turned out well, so people thought, 'She can be a single mum, Kierston can do that. Or live in a council house - she can do that.'

When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided I wanted to. Afterwards, I went to Cambridge to study law - in a way, I was carrying the academic hopes of my family, as Mum and Dad left school at 14.

The best thing my mum and dad did was to send me to the local youth theatre. I loved that; I felt I'd found the thing I really wanted to do.

People had told me to try 'The X Factor' for years, but I thought I'd be moody and hate it all. But it's what I needed. I asked Mum and Dad to come to my 'X Factor' audition, and it was the first time that they'd been in the same room in years.

When I came to Mumbai from Indore, I knew nobody.

Let me be honest - I might do a franchise film like 'Golmaal' if it comes my way. Eventually, we are all in Mumbai to become bigger stars, not better actors.

I love Mumbai for many reasons.

I was lucky to land up in Mumbai when serious cinema was just beginning to flower.

I started getting a lot of work once I came to Mumbai. I was working with some of the biggest ad filmmakers. But I had to give auditions.