Quotes About Opportunity

There are a lot of Israeli musicians in New York because you want to grow and go onstage, and eventually you have to get out of Israel to do that because there aren't enough places to play.

I don't need the money after 11 years on 'Frasier,' and there aren't that many great roles onstage left for somebody my age. I'm more interested in playing those roles than I am in playing bit parts in movies.

There were not a lot of women in the theater department - it was really run by men, and so the message was that women can be onstage, but women can't really be backstage.

It's not about me. It's about what I'm doing for kids. When I walk out onstage, there's 15,000 kids that, to me, represent potential.

One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is my six and a half years on Dawson's Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera.

I think I've had a bit of a stop-start career. I came onto the scene quite early, and then I paused for a bit.

As a game developer, getting your game onto a console is probably the most difficult.

You have to be very flexible and understand as a director, especially as a writer/director, that you cannot hang onto stuff really hard. You have to be ready to accept those happy accidents and to anticipate that they are going to happen and capitalize on them.

Show business is like a bumpy bus ride. Sometimes you find yourself temporarily juggled out of your seat and holding onto a strap. But the main idea is to hang in there and not be shoved out the door.

It's much easier to get your material out to the public now than it was in 1988, when you basically had to get onto cable to have a joke heard across the country. Now all you need is an iPhone, and you can get your joke heard across the country.

Somehow I made it onto a show and then another show, and now I'm doing my thing. So, how did I start? Because my sister wanted to be a model, and I was dragged along to support her!

From Day One, I've always had to work to find my way onto the court or onto the top position or whatever it may be.

I got paid the same as my male counterpart grad students and onward.

I became conscious in later life that I had been given an education that enabled me to do all kinds of jobs, but often, jobs weren't open to me.

God gave us the gift of life in heaven. Many people are given this gift, but they never open it. They never do anything with it.

Being Asian in this business is something you have to consider, because sometimes people aren't as open. They'll say, I can't see you with a Caucasian person.

I'm very open to making films anywhere in the world.

There must be one guy open and I want to find him.

We willing to work with anybody that wants to work with us. It's open arms. It ain't no hating on no situation.

I feel like I'm really grateful that my parents chose Canada, and I feel like there's open arms here, and it's very apparent.

There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.

We want to have a system where people can come here and work - go back and forth if they want to... so that we have an open door to the people who want to come and contribute to our country, who want to come and make a difference in their families' lives and our economy.

I grew up black in segregated America, where it was hard to find an open door. It's harder now for young blacks to find a closed one.

I'd like to be the person who changes things, or at least open doors for others.