Quotes About Opportunities

There are very few roles you actually get to perform for women. There aren't many woman-oriented films made in Bollywood.

In Bombay, people usually tend to cast you in roles that you've played before. Even though they may consider you to be a talented actor, they just think it's 'safer' to have you play the same kind of roles over and over again.

Most of my work has been in L.A. or booked in L.A. and shot on location.

For me, I wanted to be an actor without being bothered about the medium. So when the opportunity came my way, it did not really matter on which medium I am working.

After the series 'Roc' ended, every role offer I got was for the wise-cracking, ne'er-do-well brother or boyfriend, and I could have made a very good career doing those characters.

Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job.

I've been blessed to have acting opportunities in movies, television, as well as Broadway, and definitely want to continue to do so.

I've had some really wonderful opportunities in my career, 'Band of Brothers' being one of them. That's material that can really make a difference, but I don't think of that going into it - at least not consciously.

The bulk of my calls are from agents who are letting you know about material that's coming your way.

I think a few bullets have been dodged in my 'Bachelor' journey.

If you ask me, 'So what is your business model?' Our business model's always about shifting to higher value opportunities.

Drew and I have always been very analytical at looking at the business opportunities. We're entrepreneurs through and through.

Votorantim is attentive to opportunities that arise in both domestic and international markets to expand its businesses.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

I understand how success is judged and calculated in the coaching profession. That's really all I care about. You go about this business a certain way. Everybody has a certain style and opportunities that are presented to them during your career. When it's over, I'll be judged by that. I care more about the people I work with.

Success gives you a platform for further success - suddenly everybody wants to work with you, and your opportunities and possibilities open up. But at the same time, success is also immensely challenging - it ultimately often creates pride, stubbornness, and sloppiness that beget failure, taking down people and organizations.

I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.

No actor can just have failures and no actor can just have successes.

When a show becomes successful, people want to hire the people on the show for other things, and we would all try to do other things, but we could never end up doing them, so casting directors were just like, 'Enough of them! Don't touch the 'Glee' kids, because you can't use them!'

The ability to network successfully can be one of the greatest assets in business. It allows some people to find incredible opportunities, while others just watch from the sidelines.

As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.

The success of 'The Celebration' was like a hand grenade exploding in my face. It suddenly gave me so many opportunities to explore things I had never done before.

It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by that early work did not suffer extinction has been due entirely to the opportunities provided for me by the great city of Calcutta.

When more land is locked up by the federal government, real people suffer, and opportunities for future prosperity are reduced.