Quotes About Choice

With 'Lady Macbeth,' I had two other things offered to me, and they would have also been very fun, but you just have to figure that out. And then you do it.

When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.

When I am offered work, I am very selective.

Good scripts that are offered to me are few and far between, so I pick the best that I get.

I didn't decide to play guitar, but that was the instrument which I was offered. I've always been interested in horn-type instruments, such as a saxophone; but those instruments are very expensive, so my dad bought me a guitar instead. I didn't like the guitar at first, but after noodling on it for several months, I developed a feel for it.

I've been offered a couple of shows that have been very successful, but they weren't right for me. It has to be something I could be excited about for a long time.

People ask the question, 'If you're offered VP, would you take it?' No, I won't take it.

If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun.

I am very happy acting, and just have never gone at, or been bitten by the directing bug to the extent where I'm willing to put acting aside. If offered the opportunity, I think I could do a good job with the right material.

I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that's the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn't really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.

I've been offered a peerage already, and turned it down.

I was shooting for 'Bobby Jasoos' when I was offered 'Khamoshiyan.'

I was offered a series by John Carpenter after I did the movie 'Christine,' and I would've been a leading man after that. I would have played a private investigator. And I was offered a great deal - I would be involved in the direction, casting, everything, and whatever. It was whatever an actor wants, and I didn't take it.

I choose my work based on what is offered to me. If I see if my role can change the way the show will shape up, I come on board. If me being there in a show will make no difference, then I won't bother being part of it. I am inclined to do things that I haven't done before.

I took parts that either I was offered or felt I could do a good job with.

I no longer take on everything offered. Instead, I go up for roles I like, things that I would enjoy watching, stories that I want to tell.

I don't want to do every independent film offered to me.

I turned down a film that was offered to me in the very early '80s, a Scorsese film. That probably wasn't a good career move.

The approach I take in selecting a script is based on what I fancy from the the scripts I'm offered.

As an actress, all I can do is choose from the films I am offered.

'Aiyyaa' was not the first film that I was offered in Hindi... it was the first film that I wanted to do in Hindi.

I pick up what is offered to me. And if somebody is not offering me the right role and right film then I am not going to choose.

I had better offers financially but from the first day I said I want to come to Liverpool.

I had to think really hard about how to choose between job offers.