Quotes About Opportunities

Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.

None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have, and maybe should have taken.

Her future back then, thought Cat now, was like a long buffet table of exotic dishes awaiting her selection. This career or that career. This boy or that boy. Marriage and children? Maybe later—for dessert, perhaps. She didn't realize they'd start clearing the plates away so soon.

There are no safe choices. Only other choices.

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.

This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that's what actually goes on. But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age, like Scarlett Johansson, but I just don't get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted by the mess that I created in my life.

Our interest in sex is no longer to annihilate it, but to educate it, to find civilized opportunities for its expression.

Because deep down inside, she was scared. Scared of being alone, scared of being an outsider. Scared that she had all of her chances of happiness; and blown each and every one of them.

que a vida não é feita só de cinco grandes acontecimentos, mas sim dos momentos que ocorrem entre eles.

The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities, religious rights, and political processes.

I would never say no to continuing to explore the - somebody coined the phrase for me the other day, which I love - 'TVDU,' 'The 'Vampire Diaries' Universe.' I have no desire to exploit it, but I also know that there are plenty of opportunities for stories left to be told.

There aren't that many actors with hair like this. And Amazon are casting Aragorn and they're doing Interview with the Vampire' on Hulu, so there's all these good jobs.

I'd love to shoot something in Toronto; I'd love to bring something to Canada. I'm dying to shoot something in Vancouver where I'm from.

It was easy to get the offers for the good-looking vapid dude. I guess that's my power alley.

I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.

I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard.

My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.

The life of a model is so varied that I never know what will be happening from one week to the next.

Every region in the world faces challenges - and Africa is hugely diverse, so its own challenges are varied.

When you are successful, the perception of the people around you changes. If I do a variety of work, people notice me differently, and that is what is happening. I am fortunate to get these opportunities.

For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have.

Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

It's a blessing to be given a variety of roles to what I call an iconic action actor like myself.

I think I have been blessed to play a variety of roles. I have experimented and done different things.