Quotes About Opportunity

Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances... . That is exactly the position of women in the world of work today; they cannot choose.

The internet has made it possible to meet more people, make more connections and do more interesting work than would ever have been possible . It enables serendipity at an entirely new scale.

We need to give people more of an incentive to work, to save, to invest, to create a true future for themselves.

With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.

The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.

I'm excited to work on something where I have a bit more time with it, to explore one personality. That's definitely exciting to me.

I would love to work with Gena Rowlands. I just don't know in what capacity. I'd play her daughter or granddaughter, or whatever. I would just love to work with her, in whatever capacity.

Meaning lies in the magic of the coincidence that you should come across work at just the right time.

It's much easier to work with an unknown.

If you're funny, you can find a stage to get on. If you're good, you'll start to get work and eventually get paid.

I think it's worse for actors, though, because people have to choose you. As a director, I get to choose the actors, but most of the time, actors have to be chosen in order to work.

In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.

I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse.

Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them.

I extremely believe in luck, and I discovered more hard work, your luck as much

I believe in good luck, and the harder I work and the more I believe in myself, the luckier I get.

You don't know where a sport can take you, so I want to make sure that I have an education behind me in case things don't work out.

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

I've been working for a long time and I've just really been allowed to work, with very little of the baggage and the pressures that can come with my job.

Coming from an African background, obviously the foundation of the family home is education, probably because my parents had to work a lot harder for everything that they've got in this country.

We may not realize it, but a crucial step in building a healthy economy is helping people move from welfare to work.

I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.

I always wanted to work with a TV. So I'm open.

That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.