Quotes About Opportunity

They did ask me to do 'Dancing With The Stars;' I said I can do one show, but on that show you have to come up with a new number every week, and I told them that I think I'm a little past that stage.

Because I never set out to be an actress, I always feel so lucky and grateful. There are so many people who are really desperate to be stars, and it was completely the opposite for me - I fell into it.

There are just moments when all the stars are aligned for breakthrough products.

Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.

The government should not be in control of the private sector. You create opportunity, you create business, you create development, you hand it to the investor and start creating something new.

I was 17 when Arsene Wenger gave me my first Premier League start for Arsenal against Southampton and I was very immature when I was playing.

For 35 years, I've said, 'I'll never go solo.' But after a period of time - and this isn't just for an artist, but for anybody - all the things you never wanted to do eventually become the only things left that you haven't done. So they start looking pretty interesting.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

You don't start a company because you want to be an entrepreneur or the fame and glory that comes along with it. You become an entrepreneur, and you create a company to solve a real problem. And by real problem, I mean a problem that is going to exist down the line.

One of society's thorniest problems is that children from poor families start school lagging badly behind their more affluent classmates in readiness.

Wes Craven was the guy who gave me my start, from my perspective, for almost no reason in particular.

My roles aren't huge, but it's a start.

It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up.

The cool thing about a start-up - this is sort of the entrepreneur side of me - is that you can make it grow as much as you can. Or you can squander the talent as much as you want. But it's up to you.

Being a start-up has nothing to do with the numbers. It's that everyone who works there has the chance to do everything and have an impact.

AAP is like a start-up. You do roles you would have never imagined.

There was a time and a place when a pure content start-up had a chance, and that time has passed.

My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing.

I had little or no opportunity when I started out in life.

This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started.

As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.

I started hustling at 12, my mother hustled ahead of me. I was only allowed to because they knew me.

I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.