Quotes About Opportunity

The city of Orlando has so much to offer.

My first role was in the George Gershwin musical 'Crazy for You' at the Orlando Repertory Theatre when I was 11 - I grew up in Florida - and I wasn't old enough to be in it, but they let me anyway. I was just this little shrimp in a leotard.

When I was at The Orlando Sentinel as a sports columnist, it was embarrassing that I was the only black female sports columnist at a daily newspaper in North America.

I haven't felt like I ever had a chance to blossom into the player and the person I want to be in Orlando. It's almost like I've been held down every time.

When Orlando gets to the point where they're hiring local directors, that will be good.

My ultimate idea would be to get a lot of big investors together, buy some land outside Orlando, Florida, and start up Rabbitt Land.

For me, in general, it's always about the material. Obviously, it's about the material and hoping that someone wants to hire me for a job, too, but I've certainly seen films like 'Orphan' and movies like that where I know that if I had had the opportunity to read that script or had an opportunity to do it, I would have wanted to do it.

When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it.

I never thought I'd play an orthodox Jewish man.

A lot of young Latino actors have said to me, 'Why can't we get an Oscar? Why can't we be nominated?' And the terrible truth is that if you don't get the right parts, you're not going to be. Are you going to get an Oscar nomination for one of those Judd Apatow movies? Not likely, no matter what nationality you are.

I'm definitely interested in taking on roles where I don't look like myself. But I'm not saying I'm going to go out of my way to play a disabled person in order to win an Oscar.

You win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. I had a lot of meetings.

If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month.

When you're up for an Oscar, you just get offered everything. It's fantastic, but a lot of it you're completely inappropriate for.

I would like to be an actress in Hollywood and win an Oscar. The only difference is my height.

One of my first real parts was 'Crash' - that won the Oscar.

Even after I won the Oscar, my phone did not ring. No one called me to fund films or offer projects.

I've always loved movies, so I tried to get into an acting school. I saw an ad for the Oscar school on the back of 'The Irish Times,' and I went along for an audition, very pragmatically, to see if I could do it or not.

My family and I grew up watching and admiring Oscar De La Hoya and to now be fighting under his promotional banner is a dream come true.

I can't believe I am hosting the Oscars. It's an honor everyone else said no.

The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.

In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

I would like to go to the Oscars. I'm not even talking about being nominated - although that would be lovely. Even if it was I won a competition on the back of a crisp packet to go to the Oscars I would like to go to the Oscars.