Quotes About Opportunity

Obviously there aren't enough Latino roles out there - I wish there were more of them - but there's got to be more in the future. I'm sure there will be more in the future. The public is asking for it.

A Latino actor can't play this and a Latino actor can't play that because they're Latino.

Latinos can do anything.

I was called for 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge,' but I turned it down because I wasn't sure of its quality.

You are a star only when the public accepts you, and it doesn't matter where you are coming from, and what kind of a launch you are getting - everyone has to begin somewhere.

See, I didn't have a big and huge launch as a star-kid would have.

When you rest on your laurels is right when you have the risk. It exists for every company, no matter how big.

I had gone to law school thinking that I would do something in the service of black people.

When I went to law school, I went to learn about justice and equal rights.

I was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.

When I became a lawyer, no one asked me if I had spent some time in special ed. All they wanted was a good lawyer.

I think when you start comedy there are some real advantages to being single and in a low-paid job. You have nothing to lose. It's not like I was a well-paid lawyer when I began. I was earning so little I was able to sell myself to it.

When I look at 55 percent of our black men dropping out of school, how bad off are we going to be when we need some lawyers?

It's hard to get a job. There are more lawyers within a five-mile radius of wherever you're sitting than there are Division I jobs.

I feel adventure associations in our country can be the best but somehow are lazy about getting their act together.

I play the lead in 'Dunkirk', a part I was absolutely gagging for!

The United States has such an opportunity to be a leader in the world, and that opportunity has been frittered away.

To be allowed for the first time in your later career to play leading parts in extremely popular movies is not a situation to worry about.

The only way I get a leading role in a studio picture is if Ryan Gosling can't play it, which is clearly the case with 'Selma.' If this was a non-colour-specific character, it wouldn't be me. It just wouldn't.

I don't want to only play the leading man for the rest of my career.

I haven't gotten to do the leading man thing, so I would love to do that!

If there's an opportunity open that leads to an even bigger opportunity, you're going to take it.

I've been lucky to find character parts that are leads as well.

If he can hit, he can hit. I don't care if he came from Class Z league.