Quotes About Opportunity

One day I'm not busy at all; the next day I have work for months - that's kind of the way it works!

Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot.

"Lovelace" was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria and Peter Sarsgaard, so it can't get no better than that, right?

I fell in love with Nashville. I got lots of work.

I would love to work on a Bond film.

My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.

I love to work, so give me what you've got. I'll play a tree, if you want me to. If you want fruit on it, then pay me more money. Otherwise, I just love to work.

That is another reason this transition for me into soaps makes sense for me, because I would get to work at my craft every day. I would be able to play this very real character.

For me the most important thing is to continue to work with the best people that I can find, and that will have me.

My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do.

There is no right to work in a think tank, and these are very privileged positions.

Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea.

I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.

Meryl Streep is on the program tonight. I like to throw her a little work whenever I can.

Sundance is just a great place for your work to be seen. Not much more to say about it than that.

Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work.

Our country offers such great opportunities for us all. Unfortunately, too many hard-working citizens go day to day without enough food to eat.

I left school with no qualifications, but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing since sliced bread.

Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.

I don't have to work just to work anymore. More interesting parts come my way, so I can afford to say, 'I don't want to make that.'

I told the caterer I'd work for nothing if he'd teach me about catering. I lasted one week full-time. It was exhausting.

There's a lot of very funny people I'd love to work with that I've never met, of course. I love Steve Martin and Jim Carrey.

They let you dream just to watch them shatter, you're just a step on the boss man's ladder.

There's been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I've always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.