Quotes About Opportunity

Community colleges are the way of the future.

I did just about everything under the sun. I did some Revlon work, make-up artistry. I taught classes at community colleges for a make-up course, teaching tennis. I was doing everything I knew how to do. I think one year I had as many as 10 W-2's come in.

I always thought I'd end up at a small school and have to play my way up to what I thought I could be. But no, I've always had confidence in myself. That was never a thing. It was just whether or not colleges or coaches felt that way about myself.

I realized that if I did well in Colombia, I could do well in the world.

I didn't go looking to Colombia for a dream - if I tell you that, I'm lying. I went to Colombia because I needed the work!

I set up my own foundation in my town in Colombia mainly for children too. To put them on a path. To show that if I can make something different of my life then they can too.

I love putting people to work of color.

There's a difference between actresses of color and actresses not of color. If you look at how big my movies are.

We want a Colorado that works for everybody.

I thought going to Colorado gave me the best chance to get to the league, and I wanted to play in the Pac-12.

Opportunities don't always come dressed in neon colors.

What I always say is that money doesn't have colour. It doesn't matter whether you are from Africa or anywhere in the world. The colour of money is the same.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

If you're a woman of colour and you have any level of education, you have to adapt.

We're trying to give back to artists of colour and make the journey for them a little easier.

I don't want my daughter to ever feel that she can't do something because of her skin colour.

I would wish we would get to a place of colour-blind casting, where it didn't matter what colour skin you are, where you came from, anybody could play anybody and we didn't judge it.

People ask, 'Are entrepreneurs born, or are they made?' I think it's a combination of both.

Steeler was a good start for my career. They didn't play anything dangerous - everything was formulaic - but I played all this crazy stuff on top of it, and that turned out to be an interesting combination. But by the time 'Steeler' came out, I was already out of the band.

Careers will come and go. Talent is always there.

Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that.

You can never have the comeback if you don't have the retirement.

I feel blessed to have as many comebacks as I can.

Every film is a comeback, no matter what I did the last time.