Quotes About Opportunity

Whenever any actor comes into a producer session, they have so many questions, and we still can't really tell them that much until they get the job.

As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.

Years ago, Barry Diller asked me to be a judge on a pilot for an inventor show on USA, and when it was over, the producer, Ken Mok, took me out to dinner and really got me talking. It was a long dinner. Afterward, he said, 'One day, I'm going to write your movie'.

I was in the National Academy of Fine Arts and Design, on a scholarship. I was - still am - an artist. They were looking for an actor for 'Take a Giant Step,' and a producer liked my look and asked if I could act. I said, 'Yep!' Then I got into acting more or less just to make money for paints and canvases.

As an executive producer, I feel really lucky.

It was a dream come true, as in my first film, I have Rajkumar Hirani as the producer and Madhavan as my co-star. Who can get a better role than this?

No one ever said that I couldn't create my own projects, but no one actually told me that I could be an executive producer, either.

If you're always waiting for a producer to hire you... your chances are really, really small. I've been knocking on doors and asking for a job for many years, and my career really changed when I decided to create my own material.

I thought I wanted to work in music production for a while. I worked for a film producer. Then I was given the opportunity to open a bar in New York. So, I was like, 'You know what, I'm going to give it a shot.'

I have never had the problem of finding a producer for my films. I think I am just lucky because my first film didn't do great box office business.

When a producer approaches you, you think about the character, and whether you will fit into it.

Many number of times I say no when a producer or a director asks me to do a cop's role, unless the film is very interesting.

I love auditioning because I also get the confidence that I can play the character and the producer is aware of what I can do.

I'd had colleagues tell me, 'You should be calling games.' But to actually have a producer call me and say, 'We want you in the booth,' I was like, What?

There is always a producer within an actor. You just wait for the right time to start functioning as one.

I can't tell you how lucky I feel to be able to collaborate with some of my dream producers.

Definitely, I feel that there is a need for more female producers, directors, and writers.

I can't change what casting directors do or what producers do. I can only change what I do.

I'm not so bothered by the audition process anymore; in fact, I use it. It's a time for the actor to actually get to the know the director and the producers a little bit, too.

For every film that I have believed in - from 'Tanu Weds Manu' to 'Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein' - it was very difficult to find producers.

I didn't knock on any producers' doors for work.

When I was very young, around 11 or 12, when I started actually meeting people, trying to get work, I had to meet producers, directors but I didn't have the platform.

If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always.

Because of 'The Birds' and 'Marnie' I was, as the expression goes, hot in Hollywood and producers and directors wanted to hire me.