Quotes About Opportunity

I started dancing when I was about 15 or 16 in my high school drama club, and then I liked it so much that they offered dual enrollment classes. So my senior year, I ended up taking college dance courses while I was in high school because I had good grades.

With 'Lady Macbeth,' I had two other things offered to me, and they would have also been very fun, but you just have to figure that out. And then you do it.

I want to do anything interesting that is offered to me.

I wish I'd done 'Dumb and Dumber.' I was offered the part, but I don't think I'd have been better than Jeff Daniels was. Another film I wish I'd done was 'Jerry Maguire.'

I like TV, I feel comfortable there and I'm willing to take every opportunity that's offered to me.

When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.

I never turned a part down when they offered me money.

I don't know why I am not offered woman-oriented films. Films like 'Satrangee Re' went house-full at some centres, but I didn't have much to do in the film. Everyone came up to me and said that I looked pretty but nothing beyond that.

Good scripts that are offered to me are few and far between, so I pick the best that I get.

I have been offered several Bengali films. Due to destiny and good luck, 'Noukadubi' will be my first.

I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.

I've always basically done everything that's been offered to me. I'm one of the few actors who enjoy working a lot.

Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.

I didn't decide to play guitar, but that was the instrument which I was offered. I've always been interested in horn-type instruments, such as a saxophone; but those instruments are very expensive, so my dad bought me a guitar instead. I didn't like the guitar at first, but after noodling on it for several months, I developed a feel for it.

A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.

I would definitely do TV, at the drop of a hat, if I was offered a good role.

I've been very fortunate - You only can do what you're offered, you know?

In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.

If you're offered something, you're not really sure exactly what is that they saw in you that they think is the character so it's a little scary, I feel.

Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.

I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.

I've been offered a couple of shows that have been very successful, but they weren't right for me. It has to be something I could be excited about for a long time.

No one in their right mind would turn down the contracts I've been offered.

The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.