Quotes About Opportunity

I love competing. I love a challenge. I love going in and showing people what I can do, proving to them that I can get this part, that I can give you what you want.

I'd love to get that Mayweather fight. Not even for the money, just for the fact of proving us UFC fighters got what it takes to get in that ring.

A civilised society ought to make ample provision for everyone, no matter their background, to enjoy the arts and culture.

Once I hit 45, there was a real downturn. But I got an incredibly provocative, delicious lead role in a television series called 'Saving Grace,' and I loved the character.

I will continue to do TV so long as I get to prove my acting prowess.

It is one of the oldest maxims of moral prudence: Do not, by aspiring to what is impracticable, lose the opportunity of doing the good you can effect!

I love the energy in the U.S., you know. Everyone is really psyched. You feel really privileged to be there.

I just don't like closing doors. I can't do it psychologically.

When I finished high school, it was clear to me that I would study mathematics, even if I also considered economics and psychology.

There is a psychology of Bombay.

I entered Hofstra University as a psychology major.

For a year after I left Cambridge, I had an agent, and I was working in a pub and doing waitering. But I could stay at home rent-free.

That's why I created the New America School - to fill the cracks in our public education system.

It is possible to have a public education system that works.

I look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me believe in the power of public education and what it can do for individuals and communities and the state.

No family should feel they need to leave San Francisco to find a great public education.

My family is in business since long. No one has been in the entertainment industry and in the public eye. So, it was a great deal for me to get into.

As a public figure, I'm always interested in being part of brands that I actually enjoy. So, I would never do something with somebody I don't believe in, a product I don't believe in. There are so many products out there that I love that I'd chomp at the bit to be a part of their campaign.

I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it because, on balance, it is conducive to the public good.

What happens once you get a felony conviction? Now you are entering this American caste system where you can't get a job, you can't get a loan, you can't get a Pell grant, you can't get public housing.

As someone who grew up in public housing, I've known these conditions.

Those diplomas on my wall would not be there without the GI Bill that educated my father, without the public library, without the RIPTA bus.

I moved to New York City in '92 and had no money. I had a lot of free time, as actors do. I would go to the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.

You don't know how long you have in public life... I want to make the best of it while I've got the role.