Quotes About Opportunity

I used my television phase to save myself as an actor for the bigger screen.

I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.

I've always been pretty reserved, but after taking drama classes in middle school to get more comfortable performing in front of people, I thought I should try out for television.

I got into it just thinking, 'Oh, television, maybe I'll have a go at that.' I could've never imagined that it would get to this.

Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, women have so little to do with what's going on behind the scenes.

I would not leave the 'Times' for a television job.

It is a golden age of television, with Amazon, Sky, and Netflix. They give opportunities to people to develop their own projects together. So much stuff has to be made. There has to be more opportunity.

It was so nice to see a lot of my close friends get recruited and join the women's division in TNA and be able to be on national television.

In 1967, my mother - then Francie Weinman - graduated from Northwestern University with a degree from the prestigious Medill School of Journalism. But because she is a woman, the only television news job she could get in her hometown of Chicago was as a secretary at a network affiliate.

If you can master a four-hour morning television show, you can really do anything on television.

Every television show you go on is a choice.

'Beverly Hills Cop' opened up a whole world. I got the television show and movies, and I would go sign autographs for one hour and get paid $25,000.

It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.

I got to host a radio show. I got a clothing range. I was the face of fashion week. I got to do a whole television show with kids.

I've never been on a television show as a regular before.

Not many people get to create a television show that actually makes it on the air.

I could sit here and say, 'What would have happened if I hadn't made that crazy television show, if I hadn't made those crazy movies?' Well, I'd be back in Canada working at Dairy Queen.

I am lucky to be part of a 'Kyunki.' Not every actor gets a chance to be part of a successful television show.

I was about 15 years old, and I needed a job, and somebody I know - I don't even know who it was - said that there was a television show that needed a presenter and that I should go and audition for it, so I did. That was a show called 'The Word,' and I got that job.

The great thing about being on a television show is that it usually provides you with fairly steady income so you can go and do things.

When I was 17, my mum thought it would be a good idea to compete in a modeling television show. It was hard for me to book jobs in Australia at this time, being that my look was so different. Even though I didn't win, I was given a modeling contract with New York Models, so I flew to New York as soon as the show was finished.

I had done about 60 television shows, from 'Ed Sullivan' to 'The Hollywood Palace,' before I ever went to 'Johnny Carson.' At the time, that was the showcase for comics. And I couldn't believe it.

I was on 'The O.C.' and had a small part, which wasn't very challenging. I was a bit bored, so I started shadowing directors and they finally gave me a shot. From there, it led to directing other television shows. I am trying to direct a feature film, so we'll see what happens.