Quotes About Opportunity

Just keep saying yes to everything - until you can afford to say no.

The future is Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is moving to really becoming an export-oriented country.

When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done.

Africans don't just need more jobs: they need better jobs.

I am African-American, and I am a proud African-American. I just don't like to put myself in a box and say, 'I'm an African-American actress.' I am an American actress, and I can do any kind of role.

I'm looking for a job where I can sleep late and have my afternoons free with a lot of money. But those jobs seem to all be filled for some reason.

I think that's vitally important, that we get players playing at a younger age group.

When I was seven, my mom would come home every day, and I would have the phone book open to talent agencies, and I would have them highlighted.

I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.

We couldn't afford to move, so we decided to start up a model agency.

I was working with Prahlad Kakkar's ad agency. Somebody saw me there and 'Shanti' happened.

No artist gets work through an agency and it's only working artists who keep getting more work.

I moved to London to get an agent, though that took a while - everyone said no, understandably.

I got an American agent. I don't know what to think about that.

My agent said 'you've got clubs looking at you and United are one,' and I said: 'no they're not!'

'Ex Machina' was the first film I'd auditioned for. I didn't have an agent.

I tell my agent that I want to read everything.

I have an agent now.

I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.

Every character I play is straight, which is unique, my agent says, because it's not really been done before that someone who is completely out is able to play straight roles.

I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'

I think you do a lot of your growing as a human being between the ages of 13 and 18.

Literally every single job I've had for ages has been jetting off to far-flung places.