Quotes About Opportunity

This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.

Genuine talent does shine through but, in my experience, ambition will get you much further than pure talent.

My voice is a gift. My talent is a gift. The life process is a gift. The opportunity for the journey is a gift.

I have a good eye for great projects, talent, and entrepreneurs.

We have a lot of Mexican-Americans with a lot of talent. I'm sure we're going to have another Rey Mysterio in the future; I just don't know when.

We've been a city that, for many decades, has produced talent that we've lost to bigger cities. That's something we want to recapture.

Talent alone doesn't matter in this industry, and everyone knows this. If someone says, 'Good films are done', 'Talent always survives', there are other factors, too, which are far more important.

When I first got the call to do 'Britain's Got Talent', it was actually Amanda who was one of the first people to reach out to me and suggest we go out for a coffee and have a conversation. And we did, and it was great.

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

For someone making a pilot, assuming the talent is there and you can maneuver the system properly, it's just a matter of standing your ground and trying to make something great until you are making enough money for the studio that they let you keep making it.

At Reliance, we have always believed in investing in the businesses of the future and in investing in talent.

Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.

I was driving in a car on my way to football practice, and I was listening to the radio, and they had one of those, like, art showcases, like, 'Do you want to be a star? Do you want to meet talent agents, managers, producers?' And I called in, and I drove 45 minutes to Salina, Kansas, to a Marriott hotel, and did a Twizzlers commercial audition.

Talent is not enough. You need to be in the right place at the right moment.

It's something I've constantly found shocking - all this astounding talent amongst black women that never gets to be seen or heard.

To stay attractive and competitive, the U.K. should take measures to ensure that skilled talent keeps flowing in and out the country.

Talent doesn't always equal success.

You have people that know they have the talent, but sometimes they get scared when success is in their face.

During my early acting years, I was told that to succeed, you needed personality, talent, and luck in equal measure. I contest that. For me, it's been 99% luck.

I believe things are meant to be. It's the only way I can explain it because I had auditioned before to get on 'The X Factor' and 'Britain's Got Talent,' and I didn't get through - it was literally, 'No!'

Industry is not only driven by talent; it depends upon so many factors. If you need to be successful in this field, one should know how to convert everything into a plus point. If you have a dusky face, make that your plus point.

As a boy from Patna, I've always dreamt of a chance to showcase my talent.

There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.

India is a great talent pool of actors. I see Freida Pinto making it big in Hollywood, and I am sure many others can also make it.