Quotes About Opportunity

I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went.

Once in a while there was some TV offer and I'd take it.

I was asked to model but I never took up the offer.

You know you have more to offer, and it gets frustrating when you aren't given the chance.

Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.

People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it.

I did something a lot of people will have to do in this economy if they want to eventually land their dream job. I turned down an offer to take a high-paying position in another field because it wouldn't fulfill me.

Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.

Our young immigrants have a lot to offer. They are motivated and hard-working, and in many cases have already contributed significantly to our society - by excelling in school, by volunteering in their communities, or by serving in the military.

I didn't audition for 'Fargo.' It was a straight offer.

'Law & Order' was so very interesting to me because what I got to do was explore New York along with getting to work with some of the best actors New York City had to offer.

I will encourage my kids in everything that life has to offer.

Looking for a job, I was working with the Salvadoran American Foundation, a humanitarian aid group, and from there, I got an offer from the Cuban-American National Foundation.

I was never offered enough, and that's the truth.

I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.

I got offered 'Black Mirror,' and my boyfriend and I were so excited. I used to read Charlie Brooker's column growing up.

I couldn't afford to go to drama school in London. Then I met with the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, and I fell in love with the city. It was one of the few schools that offered me a place. It didn't do me any harm.

I joined the international stage quite late. I didn't do many of the youth age groups, so to come into the senior team and to be offered a Nike deal - a very, very low Nike deal to start with - but I was jumping up to bite the woman's hand off to sign the piece of paper.

Let me clear it once and for all: I was never offered 'Befikre.' But had I been offered, I wouldn't have done it.

I wasn't offered a role in 'Expendables 1,' and I'm a guest star in 'Expendables 2.'

I was fortunately always offered jobs because I was so pretty. Women used to complain about it!

I have hosted many shows in the past. Anchoring is something I really enjoy; hence, when I was offered to host the show 'Super Dancer,' I was excited to take it up.

When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building.