Quotes About Opportunity

I am no glamorous prop waiting to be presented as a showpiece in a film. Filmmakers have to look beyond that.

Rather than being a prop in a film with big actors, I would love to do a meatier and more meaningful role in a film that does not feature a big actor.

If an essay has a 'motive,' it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the driven will. A genuine essay is not a doctrinaire tract or a propaganda effort or a broadside.

A lot of times in television, you don't get the opportunity to show real life because we're brainwashed to believe the propaganda that these things aren't marketable, that these things don't sell.

With proper infrastructure and packaging, India can certainly become a global player in agricultural exports.

I didn't get to experience proper autumn until I was eighteen and heading off to college on the East Coast!

As soon as I got my proper first job, I never did acting again. I think the last thing I did was a Mike Figures film, and then I got a series with the BBC. I'm glad of the experience, because I think it's very, very good to understand what actors go through.

If you decide you want to work in the film industry, you just have to bite the bullet and take other jobs until the proper jobs come in.

We want to look at everything we can do that's right and proper under federal law, and with federal laws to see that the children of America are given a chance to grow as strong, constructive, healthy human beings. It's the best investment we can possibly make in America.

We didn't have any real proper school. We did not have a place to go to learn to dance and the joy of dancing.

When you get a good script, and the director gives you proper lines, half your job is done.

I did a lot of stage plays and musicals, and my first proper acting job was on 'Holby City' when I was 15.

I am really lucky that I got such good coaches and everything I wanted, right from the infrastructure to proper coaching.

I have a foundation where it caters to street children and entices them to go back to school. The street is not a good school for them. They need to go to a proper school.

Anybody that got in your way or stopped you or barred your success, you either push through them or work around them. I don't have enough time for excuses or crying about people saying how someone wasn't given a proper opportunity. Nobody gave me an opportunity.

I think we have seen evidence that being brave enough to go abroad can lead to a proper opportunity.

If black people use their resources properly, they can become as competitive as any group in society - take control of our neighborhoods, our businesses, our schools, including our teachers. The only thing keeping black people from doing it is this idiotic idea about integration, about being racially balanced.

I'm changing lineups obviously to give everybody their best opportunity to show what they can do. Just giving everybody their fair chance to assess that properly.

Education, when delivered properly, can benefit a lot of people and make productive citizens out of those otherwise given no hope.

I think that, as an actor, you have to break out eventually, and if you do it properly, it can be something that's positive.

Part of me still feels like I've never had the opportunity to properly express all my earliest influences, so for now, I find isolation to be my biggest influence.

If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.

I went to a performing arts school. I went to an audition for a musical, 'Les Miserables,' in the West End, and I got in, and my parents were like, 'Oh, you can sing?' So I kind of started singing properly when I was, like, seven.

I have only prepared properly for the World Championship three or four times in my life. If I had gone about it professionally I would have won the title 10 times.