Quotes About Opportunity

I insist on the dignity and God- given potential and work of every child, regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation or what zip code they were born in.

I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.

When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.

When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I'd better train and then the parts would come.

Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God's sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.

I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.

Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.

My dean gave me permission to model during my work semester, even though I was in the Criminal Justice Department. I don't know whether I'd ever have become a model if he hadn't let me do that.

As a model, you really get to work everywhere in the world. You get a little bit of this, a little bit of that.

We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.

The best advice I could give someone trying to get into the comedy field is to take advantage of every opportunity you have to work to hone your skills.

I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.

There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.

I'm lucky to get to do the job that I do. I'm really lucky to be able to work in so many different areas of this industry.

Plan B is really a little garage band of three people, and our mandate has been to help get difficult material, that might not otherwise get made, to the screen and to work with directors we respect.

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.

I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.

I've been really lucky as far as the caliber of musicians I've been able to work with each time.

I just want to get into the action. And voice-over work is all action.

I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies.

Everyone thinks something like 'The Hills' just falls into your lap. It's not true. You have to work for everything.

T.V.s weird because its both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.

Every time someone asks me who I want to work with, my answer is always the same: whoever wants to work with me that won't want to get their ego stroked.

I know our policies work best to lift young men and women up - regardless of their background - so that they can choose their own path and live lives of dignity, purpose, and meaning.