Quotes About Opportunity

It's important to experience as many parts of an organization as you can - because some day, you may have the chance to lead that organization.

I think the challenge for an actor is always to see which parts of you you can explore and go have fun with.

When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.

I want to play male characters; I want to be Ranbir Kapoor of 'Rockstar.' Those are exciting parts.

I've been told I'd make a great parts model.

And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten.

All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face.

There aren't any small parts, only small paychecks.

It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.

There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles.

I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times.

The best roles have risks... and those are the parts I'm interested in.

You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so I'm lucky I'm in it at all.

There are no small parts; there are only small actors.

Fine Gael is the party of opportunity, and no matter what background you come from, we give people a chance, and it gave me a chance.

It's a cold world out there, and this world will pass you by if you give another man anything over yourself.

If you have the opportunity for your art to meet activism, you shouldn't pass that up when it comes your way.

I'm not someone who plays hard to get. This whole thing about 'Oh, let's exchange numbers' and then people wait four or five days before they call you? I don't see the point. If you feel something, why would you let that pass? You only live once.

When you call someone and ask them to do something they've never done before, in different mediums I think they would be inclined to pass because they're afraid of the risk. But the creative people who populate the theater world love the challenge of new things.

The latitude and longitudinal lines of where you are born determine your opportunity in life, and it's not equal. We may have been created equal, but we're not born equal. It's a lot to do with luck and you have to pass that on.

I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.

I don't expect that because I was successful in one field that I will then get a ride of passage into another.

At almost forty years old, I assumed my career on camera was over. And I was certainly given that message by all the TV managers and news directors who passed on me when I was trying to get a job back in the business.

What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.