Quotes About Opportunity

I'd love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.

The nice part about being wealthy is I can do what I want to do. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. But I have to be honest.

Let's get unemployed Americans off the welfare and back to work in their own country.

We're going to do a lot of work on the inner cities, I have great people lined up to help.

The best thing about where comedy is now is if you have a little bit of talent and a strong work ethic, and strong social skills, you can make a name for yourself and you can make money.

Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.

I grew up in San Diego, so it wasn't hard to move to L.A. to get into show business, but I did the standard thing of just moving without much money and just seeing if I could make it work.

Got something new , maybe it'll work before the end of the day if that's ok .

That's kind of how I've based my career. I find talented people and beg me to let me work with them.

The goal [of mine] was always to work in as many different genres as I possibly could.

I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.

The prospect of being able to work on a Kaufman film with him directing was just too good to be true.

I do want to work on a larger scale with bigger budgets partially as a way to prove that women can do that, for sure. I definitely feel a bit of a responsibility to do that.

You have to work ceaselessly on your end to digest and imbibe your opportunities or, I have come to believe, they will gradually slip away and knock on someone else's more receptive door.

Sometimes I think your face and your bearing and your energy have so much more to do with the jobs you get than the actual work and the time and the effort that you put in, or the talent even.

I would love to work with my sister in a movie one day - like play sisters or something like that, because we've never been on-screen at the same time together.

When I have hiring power, I try to work with women in my camera crew as much as possible.

Luck is buying a lottery ticket along with your Yoo-hoo and striking it rich. Nothing about my life is lucky- it is all about hard work, it is all uphill struggle.

I love to just work with new people in general. It's always really fun.

The only work I ever turned down was a cable programme called Diving for Excrement.

I've been very fortunate to work with people that I'm fans of.

Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work.

If I want to do the kind of work that I like to act in, I need to open my mind to it.

I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.