Quotes About Opportunities

At 185 in the UFC they had Rich Franklin and Anderson Silva, and I couldn't go to 205 - they had Randy Couture, Chuck Liddell and all of those big guys. I just wasn't mature enough, so if I hadn't fought at 170 I probably wouldn't have had the career I've had.

There is an endless range of parts I have not played. I would love to do a whole slew of period pieces. I also used to do a lot of stage work, and I would like to go back to that from time to time.

In any age range, there are some limitations in terms of good, good parts.

It's hard in this business to get the opportunities to show off range.

I am glad that after 'Rustom,' I did 'Mubarakan' and then 'Baadshaho,' as it explores my range as an actor.

I've always wanted a broad range of options and to not get pigeonholed.

I was averaging about one movie a year my whole career, and that was because I'm fussy. I probably could have done more.

You're going to lose points and gain points throughout the year.

I always try to pick my parts to be as diverse as I can, and especially when you do 'Game of Thrones' for so many months of the year.

I came to the U.S. to have opportunities. I saw a lot of people in gangs. I just didn't understand that - you live in the U.S., you have all these opportunities. And then you get in a gang?

What out country is facing right now is a skills gap.

You just have to be clever about who you work with. Had I done Gap or H&M, there's no way Louis Vuitton would have wanted to work with me. So you hold out for the big ones.

Maybe I've limited my opportunities by being so open about my sexuality, but my thinking is that, if I come out of the gates this way, then it's not really going to be a big deal in a couple of years.

I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your opportunities should not be constrained by your gender, that women should be entitled to the same opportunities as men.

We can create opportunities to generate value by working across the entire breadth of Boeing.

I know so many women, comic geniuses. Where are the parts?

I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films and different genres with different challenges.

As an actor I get opportunities to do different kind of films. It's not that if I have done a few comedies, I'm averse to other roles or genres. It's just that I go for the films I like and incidentally some of them have been comedies.

The opportunities that I've been allowed to have just keep getting better.

Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.

It's nice, though, getting older and being able to do different roles.

There'll be some opportunities for other things post-playing, but it's like, 'Man, I don't want to give this gig up.'

When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.

After 'Crocodile Dundee,' I turned down lots of stuff, most of it where I'd play the girlfriend of some funny man.