Quotes About Opportunity

The 99 percent should be protesting college campuses.

There were no Manchester United fans protesting when I left their club in 2005. I wasn't one of their most important players, so I moved on, worked really hard, got my breaks, and my career took off.

Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers.

I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed.

I'm very proud of the Italian heritage of my great-grandparents, who came here from Italy, and how they helped be a part of the American Dream, and that's something we want to continue to make available to everybody who wants to come here.

I am really proud that I am one of the artists that has the opportunity to be on magazine covers and to be in the movies.

Take it from this immigrant from Israel, a proud Israeli-American, born in Egypt, a Muslim country: America is great. Not perfect, but great. And we shouldn't allow any rhetoric to make us think otherwise, because America is great - period.

I am proud to live in this country, where anything is possible.

I'll always be very proud of giving Priyanshu Painyuli and Siddhant Chaturvedi their first break. Both are phenomenal actors and I am very excited about their future.

I am proud that a majority of my law clerks have been women.

I'd never tried as hard with anything as I did with 'The Office,' and it was one of the things I'm proud of. I wasn't trying to be famous or a comedian, but this opportunity came along when I was 38 or 39. It came late, and I couldn't have been prouder of it.

I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.

I learnt to always keep my mind open to new ideas and looked at each new assignment as an opportunity to learn and prove myself.

Do internships and work your butt off to learn as much as you can and prove yourself.

On paper, my history says that my future was not very promising. But through grace, I have the opportunity to prove that where you start is not where you have to end up.

I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself.

I've really fought to get into rooms, and I'm a big believer in auditioning. It's hard, because I'm insecure, but I have an intense desire to prove myself to people.

I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don't think I should have to play a young mother on crack to prove it.

I've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Harry Potter, I'll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They're letting me prove that I'm serious about this.

Being injured, coming back, playing a few games, trying to get your fitness back, getting injured again - you don't get a chance to prove what you can do.

I'm now so keenly aware that I have everything to prove and nothing to lose.

I think from here on it's up to me to prove that I'm growing up and that I have other things to say, but in terms of the show it definitely gave me all of the opportunities I've had so far.

FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.

You have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves.