Quotes About Opportunity

Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.

Any comedic roles that I've gone out for usually end up going to a white woman or a gay man instead.

So the only things I was being allowed to audition for were small roles in comedies. It broke my heart. No one would see me for anything else. I knew, in order to open up my career, I had to leave or that's all I would ever be given.

I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.

I think I would do a much better job if I had a chance to do things that were edgier than I get to do in comedies.

I don't have anything saying, 'I'm going to do this many new films, and this many comedies.' But, it's always exciting for me, whenever it is a new character and something I haven't done before, and that's part of what draws me to it.

NBC gives comedies a chance to find their legs.

I am open to doing comedies, romantic stories, and commercial cinema, but it has to work for me so that I can give a year of my life in making it.

I love comedy, and I'd love to do more of it, but I end up with the work I end up with.

I would watch several English comedy shows and I have always wanted to be a part of one.

When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage.

I'd love nothing more to play a strong leading male in a Marvel thing. I read they are about to make comic book hero Captain Britain and I thought that would be an amazing part to play.

I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

Any club has more than enough comics, so if you're not there every night talking to the booker, you're not going to get on. You have to be there more than they are.

Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys that do. I've done it. But I also think that you can pick great songs outside that you didn't write that can help your career.

My first acting job was a Breck commercial.

I am not saying that I won't do big commercial films.

I went to a few really bad commercial auditions because I needed the money, and when you booked a commercial, your life was made: you could eat.

I want to balance commercial and off-beat roles.

I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company.

I'm not averse to being in big commercial films.

So far, yes, I have been doing only commercial films because those are the kind of films that came my way. Those are the kind of films that I liked, but definitely I'm open to doing other kinds of cinema as well, and if something comes along - if I like a character - then I would definitely do something off-beat or edgy.

My brother was scouted for a commercial when he was three, and it was just because he could speak clearly and was well behaved, basically. I don't think he had any amazing acting ability at that age - although he is actually a great actor.