Quotes About Opportunity

I grew up in New York. It was anything but sheltered.

I always wanted to become an actor but I wanted to act in films. But when I saw there are really good opportunities on television, I shifted focus to television.

We all can't shine at the same time.

I don't think that people don't succeed; I think that it takes time! Everyone will have their time to shine!

The reality is, because of access to film, you don't have a lot of black people who want to go behind the camera. We raise our children to want to be in front of the camera and shine, and that's on us.

I would love to be a part of an interesting, entertaining film in which I shine like never before.

Don't get me wrong, I'm going to play the young role as long as I can because once that ship has sailed, there's no getting back on it.

I almost should have a shirt made: 'Jill Soloway has changed my life...' Not only changed my life with the opportunity to play Maura, but the opportunity and the responsibility of playing Maura.

If you have the number one shirt, and you don't play any games, it doesn't really help you.

Every chance I've had, I've grabbed the chance to wear the No. 1 shirt.

Whenever you're in an England shirt, you have an opportunity to make history.

I do a lot of decision making before each shoot. It's a luxury to be able to choose what you do.

If you have an open shot, and you're a shooter, and you've put hours and hours on the practice court shooting the ball, you shoot the ball in the game. It's just that simple.

Just because a guy is not a 3-point shooter doesn't mean he can't score.

I want to go to a team that needs a guy like me, a shooter, a guy who can do a lot of things offensively, that can use me right away.

I had a Saturday job in Barratts shoe shop at the age of 15.

When I was 8, my dad asked me if I wanted to audition, just for fun. I did just a little short film, and I liked it. I just kept doing it, and then I started getting bigger auditions for bigger roles.

The very first picture that I did, the director came up to me on the street - I was 14 at the time - and asked me if I would be in a short film that he was doing called 'Pigen og Skoene,' which means 'The Girl with the Shoes,' which is a funny title but that is how it is.

I did a couple of short films when I was in Scotland.

Let me tell you this: if Marco Rubio - even though he's only been in the Senate for a very short period of time, that man has a huge, huge opportunity in this country, and I think he could be the president.

People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.

Football is a short-lived career, and you have to maximise your earning power while you can.

Why should your background be held against you? It is so short-sighted.

I wouldn't call myself a commitment-phobe, but someone who really likes to try everything to the point of wanting to do short-term projects, just to give myself the opportunity to go to more places and try more things.