Quotes About Opportunity

If I have a chance to try in Hollywood I will grab it. What is important is that the work is good - if it's a good role I will grab it. I simply want to do good work and I don't mind where it is.

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

I don't look like Catherine Zeta-Jones, so I don't think Hollywood would be that interested in me, to be honest. I just want nice work.

I could stay making nice safe BBC movies for the rest of my life, so I decided to risk it. It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

For women the wage gap sets up an infuriating Catch-22 situation. They do the housework because they earn less, and they earn lessbecause they do the housework.

When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn't have to work for?

I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us.

If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of extremes.

Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.

My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just can't rely on the private sector. They don't want to touch them; they don't want to hire them.

Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and Down with Authority her war-cry.

Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him.

There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today... and will come around for me tomorrow.

I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.

I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there.

I'll do anything usually if there's money involved and little work.

Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck.

It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.

For me, what's wonderful for me at this stage of my life is that I get to work with people I've admired for a long time.

What the hell do you want to work for somebody else for? Work for yourself!

People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to control their own lives.

Putting 100 percent into your life, your work, or sport, doesn't give you the right to expect success at whatever you are trying to do - it just provides the opportunity.

Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.

I think pressure when you work is good. It forces you to take risks and to do other things.