Quotes About Opportunity

If I had to give odds, I would say 30 percent of whatever good fortune I've had in this business has been luck, and 50 percent has been casting - so that's 80 percent right there. And 20 percent is just working really hard and taking risks.

Rennes wanted me at one point, but in France they have a problem - they don't like taking risks. But if you don't take risks, you don't get anywhere. You pass by the periphery of many things, like life and football.

I don't think about taking risks anymore because there aren't any risks to take.

One becomes an entrepreneur to break the glass ceiling and that's when you grow the market. Of course, in that process you have to be prepared to get hurt. You will get hurt. But I'm a doer and I like taking risks.

From comedy, mythology, and drama to reality show, I have never stopped myself from taking risks.

I have a bold plan to break from the Bloomberg years, and end the 'Tale of Two Cities' by providing real opportunity to all New Yorkers, no matter where they live.

When you look at Mark Zuckerberg and Snapchat and all these twentysomething billionaires, it's really kind of fascinating; a classic tale of the haves and have-nots.

'Meadowland' was the reason I got 'The Handmaid's Tale,' and probably my experience in cinematography helped. Everything was like a stepping stone to the next thing.

It has been a fairy tale for an outsider, bouncing from one film set to another, choosing my films as assertively as those films chose me. And through this journey I have not once faced the dreaded syndrome of the 'casting couch.'

I was determined that with perseverance and faith, at some point, someone would say, 'This girl has talent,' and would cast me in something meaningful.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

Let the path be open to talent.

We should judge by talent and work not by community or caste.

If you have talent, then success will come to you.

The RAF allowed me to play a lot of football, but like England later, they failed to recognise real talent when it was under their noses.

Detroit's a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you've got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you're going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.

India's Got Talent' is one of the biggest platforms for talent across the world.

There is a lot of talent in our slums.

This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.

Nepotism will never give you success, but talent can.

I'd like to create a space for people who have a lot of talent but not a lot of reach.

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

Geography can be a major restriction for people to not be able to showcase their talent.

Monday night, there ain't a better time to showcase your talent.