Quotes About Opportunity

It was my wish to play in the challenging conditions in Australia. I love the bounce there.

When you are asked to open the batting in overcast conditions, it is a challenge.

If you are really a good talent, then you need a certain amount of chances to prove yourself and get acclimatised to the conditions.

I have been running maths clubs for children completely free. In my building in Bangalore, I conduct maths clubs for several months, and every child who attended the club was poor in mathematics and is now showing brilliant results.

If you don't take risks, you won't be able to do anything. I was confident I could use my experience to change and improve the way Macau worked.

The biggest advantage of OTT is that it is not confined to the box office.

When I first met Sam Mendes, I was a bit confused and said to him, 'I'm 50 years old. What am I going to do at 50 in a Bond film?'

There is some confusion in my mind whether to continue to write on banking or try newer pastures.

Being a conglomerate, each of our businesses has a different challenge; business landscape is different for each business. It makes it challenging as well as exciting.

I really was going to run for Congress.

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

In life I've learned one thing; if you want to be good you have to connect with the best people. So I got very close to the high-stakes players here. I get to watch them and play with them a little bit.

That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone.

We need to figure out how to connect people to jobs.

The reality is that we connect through food, and we have the opportunity to do it three times a day.

I just read the scripts that come to me, and I see the ones which I really kind of understand and connect with, whether that's a science fiction or a period piece. It doesn't really matter as long as they're original and I have something to do with the character.

I want to make democracy work not only for the rich and the well connected but for everyone.

We should be doing more business with China. We should be better connected to the Chinese economy.

What wouldn't have happened to me if I hadn't ended up in Hartford, Connecticut.

We'll continue to make doing business easier in Connecticut.

One of the best pieces of wisdom I ever got is you work because you work, meaning you work because you're saying yes to things, and you're connecting with people.

I entered this career having no background or connection to acting.

A lot of people in this business are born with money or family connections.

I am quite proud that I managed to prove that you don't have to be able to afford drama school or have the right connections to do well.