Quotes About Opportunity

Unless you work in demolition, don't burn bridges.

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.

We have to make the economy fairer. That starts with raising the national minimum wage and also guarantee, finally, equal pay for women's work.

Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.

I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner.

In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however.

A guy gave me a job at an information booth - no questions asked.

Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales.

I would love to work with Nickleback. I think they're an incredible band. One of my favorites.

There would always be scripts that came along that I turned down, like Gang Member #5 - roles that were just stereotypes.

Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.

What I will not do is continue to perpetuate stereotypes. I'm the daughter of a maid; why do I have to also play a maid? My mom was a maid so I didn't have to be a maid.

I use every opportunity, whether on my radio show or on television, to break stereotypes.

I do think that being a BAME actor does make it difficult to avoid stereotypes.

Despite the gender stereotypes in the '80s, my race-car-driving dad taught me that I could do whatever my brother could.

When women are provided with training and entrepreneurial opportunities in distribution networks, they become role models in their communities, showing it is possible to challenge limiting norms and stereotypes, and to succeed.

People obsess about casting and representation, but really, all the real work is behind the camera. Casting an Asian American into a bad role where they're shoehorned into these stereotypes is worse than not having cast them at all.

I want our generation to break stereotypes, and I want Indians who are making their foray in Hollywood to get all kinds of roles.

I portray female characters, so I have the opportunity to change the way people look at them. Even if I wasn't consciously doing that, it would happen anyway just because of how I present as a woman, or as a person. I present in a way that's not stereotypical, even if I'm playing a stereotypical role.

If I hadn't left South Africa, I felt I was at risk of being pigeonholed. I looked around and saw actors who, 10 to 15 years into their careers, were still playing stereotypical Afrikaans characters, stereotyped Indian characters. That was not something that I wanted for myself.

My parents weren't stereotypical and pressuring me to go to college. They mentioned it a lot and constantly, but it wasn't a do or die thing, like, 'You have to do this or you're done.'

Your stereotypical L.A. Persian kids were not working at Sbarro pizza in the mall, but I was.

Everything big-budget or stereotypical I was offered after 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a huge no-no.

I've been blessed because every single role I've done has been an educated person. I've never done the stereotypical Latina, even though I have an accent - I've always been able to play educated people. That's a good thing!