Quotes About Opportunity

I just happened to be Latino, and like any artist, I was trying to forge a career. If I opened doors for others, that's great, but nobody starts out with those aspirations.

My life is unrecognisable compared to what it was - 'Game of Thrones' has opened doors that were never there before. But it can be dangerous to see it in those terms, I think. It's best to take it as it comes and work as hard as you can, and hopefully the other things fall into place.

I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.

I was the first in my family to go to college, and so, growing up, I thought that dressing well opened doors.

Before, I just don't think we knew how much music was out there; now with MySpace, it's really opened it up. Filmmakers have so much more choice.

I was in seventh grade, and getting a part in Full House was huge. It opened so many doors for me.

I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.

Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.

If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.

On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me.

Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me.

'Modern Family' has definitely opened up a lot of doors and I will always be grateful.

My last name may have opened doors, but I have to keep them open.

When I was 15, I got a job at the first Hollister that opened up.

Anybody that has followed closely what I've been doing can see from 'Home,' being as big a hit as it was, it kind of opened the door for me to try new things musically.

I definitely think it opened doors for me and what was so fantastic about 'Downton' being showed over in the States, was that it helped get me noticed.

I don't have this obsessive need to do street art all the time because it's already opened doors for me.

I don't think I have had a big break, although joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986 opened up new horizons.

Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.

'The Stand' came out in May of '94 and was seen by 60 million people a night for four nights, and then two months later, 'Forrest Gump' opened. So within a very short time, I went from being depressed about not getting any work to being in two of the most popular shows of the year.

I opened about a dozen employment centers for Arab women across Israel during my two years as minister of economy.

I didn't have the money to travel until I got to the NFL, so it's definitely opened doors for me in that capacity.

Doors opened for me because of who I am. But the downside is, there is way way too much expectation from me, much more than there would have been if I were from outside the film industry.

Ricky Martin just kind of opened a big door, but it's always been around. Latin artists have always been there, but some of them were never doing it in the U.S.