Quotes About Opportunity

If we want to make workplaces more open, we need to acknowledge logistical challenges... by being more open, it might create a path for other women.

I never really acted at school. It was doing small parts on TV that really got me started.

I acted in my first film while in my second year of degree college, in 1978.

The beginning of my acting career was in London, England.

With my acting career, everything always seems to just fall into place, so it's not about having to try really hard to get work.

I wasn't very good in my serious acting class. Sometimes people took our class so seriously, so I used to, sort of, make fun of people after class. And so a friend of mine said, 'Why don't you do the comedy thing.' That's how it all worked out.

I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far.

I love learning on set, it's the best acting school ever.

The most exciting thing I've seen is directors not only being open to actors coming in the room with different abilities but actively looking at ways that the story can be enlarged with disabled actors.

There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.

Anybody can say she's an actress. It's another thing to get a job.

I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done.

There are a lot of good actresses out there.

If I had made it in cheerleading, I would have never been an actress.

Three weeks into being in Hollywood, I was playing with Slash through an ad in the paper.

Stuck as Adam Cartwright, I was only able to use about one-tenth of my ability.

Latinas who come to the U.S. should adapt, learn English and become a part of the community.

Every situation I've been in in my career, you just sort of adapt, and figure out where you can be effective.

I've learned to adapt to a situation, to make the best of it.

You have to adapt to each level and it improves you when you're in better teams. That's what's happened to me over the years. Every team I've played in has just got better and better. It's become a lot easier.

People are really excited right now to see women in new roles. When I was young, as a crazy football addict, it wasn't something I saw, and maybe that's why I thought it was never something I can do.

I don't believe we need to choose between addressing economic issues and addressing issues of social or racial justice.

I'd love the opportunity to continue to work in the U.S. with people I have always admired and I also want keep telling stories from where I'm from.

I'm not going to take a show unless I'm not sure I can do it. You have to have that sort of adrenaline.