Quotes About Opportunity

Television and movies just take so long. If you pitch a show or develop a project, it can be a year before your show even gets on the air, if it gets picked up.

A new project can offer you a new challenge.

'Sara' was the first film project I worked on as an actress; it's a short film.

I love Chicago. I wouldn't be where I am now, and I certainly wouldn't have the confidence that I hope that I project, if I'd not lived in Chicago.

Once, I got a chance to meet filmmaker Pradeep Sarkar. He wanted me to give music for his film but the project never got off.

People sometimes ask me why I did this or that project. I say, 'Well, they asked me.'

Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.

The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society.

The first film is very important, and one needs to choose the right kind of debut project. I also think the second film is equally important, as it needs to be a notch higher.

I don't know if there's a particular project, but one movie that I was really disappointed I didn't get to work on was Judd Apatow's 'Walk Hard.'

I'm going to design again, but I come back when it's the right project, so I keep my passion for it intact.

I just feel like when a good project comes along, I'm not going to discriminate against it because it's television or because it's a film. I never want to say no to something just because of the area that it's in. If it's a good story or I think it's going to be exciting to play or exciting to be a part of, then I'm going to be a part of it.

I'd like to do something a little different. Something a little less intense. I'm not sure what it's going to be yet. For the first time in my life, it's great to have choices, but I think I have to be very careful in choosing the right next project.

I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment.

It was really hard to find another project after my first film.

I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, 'Oh, you might want to read 'In Cold Blood' because they're talking about you for Capote, but the script's with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment.' So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain.

You know, I've always been very open to any project.

There was this project I really wanted before 'Glee' and I didn't get cast - I went in about 13 times and I was so bummed when I didn't get it. But then a month later I got cast on 'Glee,' and I felt like it was meant to happen.

You just see a good project and want to be involved in it, and that's what 'Dexter' was.

When I'm offered a role, I look at what I think I can do with it. I look to see if I can project myself into it.

I don't care where I have to go for work. I just care that it's a good project. That's what I want.

Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail.

I'm not partial to any system, but at the same time, I'm a Korean actor, so I expect to work mainly on Korean projects.

A lot of times you have to dip into the independent world to find the really great projects and the really great scripts. They're out there - you just have to search hard.