Quotes About Opportunity

Give me meaty roles, and I'll sink my teeth into them!

With 'Imposters,' I finally felt I had gotten something I could sink my teeth into. It's a dream come true, and I couldn't ask for a more fulfilling and challenging experience. It was something I didn't expect. A real surprise.

I hung onto Hollywood by the skin of my teeth, and at first I fought over every piece of bread. Later, I got very small parts.

You're talking to a guy that graduated from business school by the skin of his teeth, only to crash and burn at his first consulting job. What about that C.V. makes me a good representative of Asian Americans and Canadians?

I started my life on the ground selling sim card, telecom products and so on and learned a heck of a lot doing that.

When I was 15 and starting my first job as a messenger boy at the post office, delivering telegrams.

I started at 'The Daily Telegraph' as a daily news reporter. I moved then to 'The Guardian,' and then I moved to New York as the correspondent for 'The Guardian,' moved to 'The Times of London.' And really, it was the best job you could imagine. You could cover any story you wanted in America.

We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.

And when your phone rings, pick it up. Open yourself up to the possibility a phone call offers. Discover this remarkable device called the telephone. It will give you a serious competitive advantage.

When I first came to Hollywood, I couldn't afford a telephone.

When I first came into New York City, what I did was, I didn't have very much money, and I couldn't afford pictures or a resume, so what I used to do is I would tear off the back of a matchbook, and I'd write my name and telephone number on the back of the matchbook.

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

'High Maintenance' became my calling card for the bulk of my television career.

It's very hard, you know, for an Asian actor to be in a prime-time television series.

Television is growing. It is a huge market for great content.

Immigrants use debt intelligently. They understand the difference between active debt: creating a business, or something to make business better, and dead debt: buying that new sports car or the 60 inch television. Those things don't lead to the good life. They delay getting it.

As a child, I have always wanted to have my fingers in many pies, and working on television was always on my checklist.

I feel quite lucky to have the platforms I have on both television and radio.

I had no plans once I finished my football career, which was a problem, so I had to go looking for work. Television was the one area that it was easier to get a job than anywhere else.

The television has opened a lot of doors for me. I am very successful at what I do, and I live a good life. It's not something that I'm embarrassed of. I think it's something people should want to aspire to.

There was a time when I really wanted to do films, but they didn't come my way. I would come close and the next day suddenly I'd realise that I am not a part of the film anymore. So that's how television happened.

I like to try the scene over and over, but given the confines of television, I don't have that option.

I have played many negative roles in films, and television gives me an opportunity to break through this image and portray another side to me.

I began with 'A Mouthful Of Sky' and I enjoyed that a lot. So, when I started getting offers for Hindi television, I jumped at the opportunity to do 'Margerita' and 'Captain Vyom.'