Quotes About Opportunity

My live show experience has not been good. It's just because I haven't had a band or anything. I played a show in Santa Ana that I'm just not proud of at all. It came out of the blue, and I kind of freaked out and took the opportunity because it was the biggest thing I've ever been offered.

As black women, we're miles behind our white counterparts in being offered the space to create and craft female characters in major blockbuster films.

I always want to try for what's been offered to me.

The fact is that television, even before the movies, offered the chance to control our work and to get to do it again when we did something right. So television has always been better to writers than any other medium for a long time.

I don't want to do every independent film offered to me.

For whole swaths of people, that map of, 'Come along this way, come to college, do this and that,' isn't offered.

If someone offered me a movie, I will take your script.

I turned down a film that was offered to me in the very early '80s, a Scorsese film. That probably wasn't a good career move.

I went away to college, and when I came back and was coaching at Pitt, if they would've offered me a 25-year contract to be the assistant coach, I would've taken it so fast. It was ideal. I was coaching one neighborhood over from where I grew up.

I've been so blessed since doing 'I'm A Celebrity'... It has changed my life, and I just want to keep on being offered fun projects like 'The Jump' to do.

As an actress, all I can do is choose from the films I am offered.

At the same time most people were getting out of college, I was offered a buttload of cash to star in a movie. I don't think most students would have said no.

Actors are at the mercy of roles that are offered.

The UFC offered me a fight against one of the Top-10 fighters named Demian Maia. I believe he was, like, No. 2 at the time. They obviously believed in me to think that I could face one of the best guys in the division.

At West Ham, I was the last person to be offered a scholarship. I remember an Under 18 match against Fulham. I was 16 and had to prove myself. Everyone else already had their scholarship. It was probably one of my best games. Knowing that every day I'd have to fight has made me into the person I am today.

Bejoy Nambiar had offered me 'Shaitaan' some years ago. But I wasn't confident about my Hindi.

I have been fortunate enough to be offered characters and projects that challenge me and that are different from the characters that I have played.

Bellator offered me a job. UFC never offered me an opportunity to fight. There's no question that UFC is the top. It's a machine. A lot of people, including myself, have helped build the UFC to where it is today.

I was offered my first film right after my 10th board exams. Back then, I didn't even know they made films in the South. Films, I thought, were either in Hindi or English.

Personally, as an artiste, I never do any discrimination. If I am offered a 'Golmaal 4,' I'll run and do it.

Modeling is just one of those things that goes along with acting. When it's offered, it's hard to say no, because it's fun.

'Aiyyaa' was not the first film that I was offered in Hindi... it was the first film that I wanted to do in Hindi.

Money dictates nearly step of social mobility from the very first moments of life. How much our parents make often determines whether we go to college. It affects the jobs we get offered and the ones we can afford to take.

If something sounds good, and I get a good feeling about it, I'll take it, irrespective of the fee being offered to me.