Quotes About Opportunities

I am getting better offers since directors feel that I am versatile and can be more than just a girl next door. I am also seriously trying not to be repetitive.

The more versatile you make yourself, the more work you get. Training makes you more versatile and ultimately gets you more work. Julliard taught me that.

I always look for opportunities where I can prove my mettle as a versatile artist.

I always say, Don't make plans, make options.

Some famous person said, Success is 50 percent luck and 50 percent preparedness for that luck. I think that's a lot of it. It's being ready to take advantage of opportunities when they arise.

That's just the business of boxing. Things just turned out that way. I don't think it was any particular reason. I had opportunities to fight in bigger fights, but things just didn't always work out.

I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.

I've been very blessed to work in some films that I'm very proud of.

The voice thing is a blessing that I was given. I've had opportunities to do voice work of all kinds. It was something that was given to me and I was able to make good use of it.

I'm just trying to find a good project. Work with a good director, someone I really admire. Find a good role.

I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.

My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air.

So much of Hollywood is about who the people you work with are.

I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.

It's hard to do things like auditions, because you don't want to put weeks of work into just an audition.

There's no show business in Canada, so everybody just did stand-up and we all thought, "Oh, we'll just keep doing stand-up." And then I'm like, "There's more work in the States."

I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work.

I have less control over how I'm cast and the jobs that I get than people would imagine. Most of us don't have control over that, but I think it's a preponderance of your body of work.

I used to pick up lettering jobs when I was first starting in the business like in between if I couldn't get other work.

I'm not fussy about the medium I work in. I'll do television radio, you know. I have to, because that's the only way I can do continually good roles.

Work is like the rest of life. The best parts are free.

I couldn't get any work in television. No one would even meet me, and I had very good agents.

Some PhD physicists write software or work for hedge funds, but physics still has a problem with having very smart people but not enough opportunities.

You know the hardest thing to do in Hollywood is burn bridges. There is usually some sucker who still likes me. There is usually some sucker who will still work with me.