Quotes About Opportunity

You have to have talent. You have to get the audition and then you have to nail the audition.

There is no set way of getting a role - you don't give an exam, score well, and then nail a film.

I'm lucky to have this career where I haven't spent time nailed down to one brand.

When I first came to New York I did nails, and I really didn't get a lot of money.

It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!

Being a little naive can work to your advantage.

Sometimes you're going to be inexperienced, naive, untested, and totally right. And then, in those moments, you have to make a choice: is this a time to speak up, or hang back?

Los Angeles is not going to be a big naive step for me. I know it's tough out there, but I do think there's a place for Irish actors in that market.

I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

I often say my naivete early on in my career worked in my favor.

I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.

I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel.

It's cool to be named a Shooting Star and, of course, a big honor. But as to what comes of that, I'm just going to see what comes my way.

I hired a guy named David Sze to do consumer investing at Greylock. And he went on to invest in Facebook and LinkedIn. So I guess I did something right.

A correction is a great time to determine what are our high conviction names.

I want first and foremost to help other artists, launch new names, to provide opportunities. I want to do for them what happened to me, but better.

I will play the characters with last names like Sanchez and Gonzalez until the day I die, but I also want to play the 'Michelle Smiths.'

I'd love to work with some of the people I've remixed for - Ed Sheeran or Chris Martin or The Weeknd. But it's not just big names like these guys that I want to collaborate with.

The role and the script are not the only factor to chose or do a film, but the names associated with the project also matters.

I want to be able to pick up a list of names of graduates from high schools and colleges in the city and to see that that list is longer than it was when I started in 2009.

When I moved to Los Angeles, I was cooking with two guys who became celebrity chefs, if you will. I became their sous chef for awhile. We'd go to all the big names in Hollywood.

The fact that I have the chance to learn from the names I've been on tour with, I don't think you can ask for any more than that.

I'm sure Adrien Broner would jump at the opportunity to pick up two belts in one night, and I think a lot of big names would take that opportunity.

During the last years of university I started an online business with a couple of friends selling domain names - we started by cybersquatting and then we became a real business. Someone bought us after three years and we made a good deal.