Quotes About Opportunity

I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.

I remember early in my career people telling me I needed to change my accent, that I needed to sound more professional, more BBC perhaps, but I think if I wasn't from Middlesbrough I wouldn't have done as well as I have.

I came to this country when I was 13 years old, I couldn't really speak English, and I had an accent.

I could never get cast with an Indian accent. I was not getting cast.

I grew up in the '60s and '70s, where it was still acceptable to say, 'Well, you're not academic, so that's fine, you'll do it some other way.'

I have been saying 'no' to many projects ever since people accepted Malar from the movie 'Premam.'

When you're accepted you don't have to fight for parts.

I believe it's important to have equal opportunities as a black actor. My way of fighting for it is through my art, by not accepting that there are roles that aren't for me.

As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.

Football should be accessible to every child, regardless of ability or background.

I became a director by accident. M.S. Raju garu asked me to direct a movie, and I said OK. It all happened in 5 minutes.

I fell into makeup by accident, but I found my love for it, and once I realized that I could actually turn it into a huge business, that's when I started taking it a little bit more seriously, but it's always something that I knew could be something.

I got into films by accident.

I had bought some land in Unnao with the money I got after the accident. I plan to build a sports academy for the disabled there.

I look back - I think I am an accidental actor.

Since I became accidentally famous, it did give me access and, through that access, power that I couldn't just walk away from.

Being the first in my family to go to college, I believe, is my greatest accomplishment. It's not my accomplishment; it's my family's accomplishment.

Every time I've played in the postseason, it's another huge accomplishment that I want to take full advantage of and go out there and play my best for the team.

I think about things like, 'Will my kids need a college account? Will they even go to college?' I don't know if that will be the case.

I have been accused of never saying no.

I am accustomed to making the most out of my opportunities.

There's so much left to achieve, there's so much more to do, there's so much that has not been done.

I have been very lucky with what I have achieved.

We live in the world's greatest democracy; we want for nothing. And that which we want, we can work toward achieving.