Quotes About Opportunity

I played Pierre, a white Russian aristocrat, and my co-lead was Denee Benton. Two black leads playing not black people - it was an important moment for the Broadway community to say diversity is possible and it's here.

With the athletes, there's a lot of diversity. But when you look at the management, coaching and the boards, there's not that much diversity there. I think it's diversity within those roles that's needed.

Hollywood needs more diversity.

For actors, we always feel like there shouldn't be any divide for anybody. The industry is the one that kind of creates the idea that if you're such-and-such an actor, you can't be on the big screen.

I've been turned down for a lot of TV because they didn't think there was a place for Divine on television.

It's nice to know that a studio is willing to put a female in a film without expecting the character to have a love interest.

I was a guy who showed up for work and took the chance for finding out whether I could do it or not... I'd like to think I made my success not at the expense of anyone. Success was accidental.

The expense of a screen test is one reason why it's difficult to crash Hollywood.

We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more.

Sports is expensive, and you have to find a way to pay for it.

If you feel a bit aggrieved or hard done by, you probably need the break just to reset yourself and give yourself time for different learning - to get out there and experience different things.

I experienced a lot of things while I was working with Dibakar Banerjee.

Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.

I think that diversity is key for the next American entrepreneurs. They want to be a part of this society where there is so much diversity they have to have people from all the experiences.

I love to experiment and take every opportunity as a challenge.

I think I'm already slotted. After 3 Bahuraniyaan where I played a positive role, I did one negative role just as an experiment. After that I started getting only such roles.

I have never thought about creating an image for myself in Bollywood. I am an actor and just want to experiment with roles. I am ready to do all type of roles.

Commercials are 20 seconds long, so you don't get to experiment with your characters. But in films, you get to try out your acting skills.

I want to experiment. That is why I only sign the movies I believe in.

At the end of the day we need to experiment and if we start being too cautious, we'll end up working with the same actors and doing the same roles. That's how people get stereotyped.

Britain's great postwar meritocratic experiment was broad-based, but it was in politics that the change was most dramatic.

I would like to be part of all kind of cinema and will jump at any opportunity that allows me to experiment as an actor.

I have been lucky makers have allowed me to experiment with my roles.

It's hard to get a film, you know, you need a very special film to be able to get that experimental. But, I would love to see that happen. I would love the opportunity to be more experimental than I am.