Quotes About Opportunity

Every person wants to stretch himself and widen his audience. Since Hollywood has got more exposure and is shown all over the world, it's obvious that every actor would want to do an English film and explore himself.

As an actor, I'm always so excited about those things that I get to stretch my legs and really get to do something that's hard to do.

Sometimes in film and television, I don't have the opportunity to play roles that really stretch and challenge me.

With a modest amount of looks and talent, and more than a modicum of serendipity, I've managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into 50 years of good fortune.

I want to do a rom-com. For me, where I come from, it would be such a stretch.

I would never shoot down any opportunity to challenge myself or stretch myself.

I've had a very good stretch with startup investing, and I think it's very important to know when to hold your chips.

I'm trying to break the stereotypical role now of the Theo-type character because, in my post-'Cosby' life, as I call it, I don't want to be known as just the kind of guy who can play a Theo Huxtable-type character. I want to be known as being able to do more things, being able to stretch.

Where I'm from, you focus on finishing school. Even finishing college is seen as a stretch - you just get a job after school, and that's it.

On every job you learn, on every job you should be looking to learn and every decision you make on the jobs you take, they should always try in some way, even if not in a huge way, they should in some way stretch you.

Whenever I get time from my TV shoots, say 10-15 days at a stretch, that's when I complete shooting for films.

I've said this quite often, there was a certain stretch in my career where my gender held me back.

I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.

With Lady Gaga I really stretched myself as a creative director, and because I was with this artist from before she got signed I was able to really take control of the opportunity and execute as a creative director.

I look for something that can challenge me or makes me ever so slightly afraid - fearful of how I am going to approach it - then I'll go for it. If the project appears linear or predictable, then I'll usually give it a miss. Anything that involves me being stretched as an actor, I go for.

The way I see it is that I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a free-thinking individual. I spent the first five years out of high school trying to make it work in Eau Claire, then I had to leave because there wasn't enough going on in town.

I want to have my own brand and there were things I couldn't do because of the 'Strictly' brand and the time involved.

I wanted to work strictly as a freelance actor, and that's the way it turned out.

Strictly has been such a gift. It is so much more than I thought it was going to be.

I've always presented as a very cisgender male and that was part of the reason I was able to cover so easily... I was always in such a strictly binary environment growing up. I was never given an opportunity to sort of play into more genderqueer fashion.

I have no regrets about doing 'Strictly.' This is the biggest achievement of my life.

'Strictly Business' is about a young black man who is learning about himself, and that applies to a lot of young black men, those who are trying to find jobs. This film gives them a good look at that situation.

One of the reasons I said yes to doing 'Strictly' was because it is so far removed from what I do for a living ordinarily.

I had three brilliant years on 'The X Factor,' and it was one of the best jobs I've ever had. 'Strictly' is completely different; it's a whole different show - I'm dancing. It's not presenting. But this is one of the best things I've done - ever.