Rose McIver Quotes

I wasn't even in a theater because I guess nobody believed in me, so I was in the hallway of a theater on a platform that they would move so the main stage show could go on at eight o'clock and I'd be gone.

MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.

I'm aware of the fact that a lot of talented people out there will never get this chance.

I never took to Hollywood.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

Too often, people get jobs based on who they know - not what they know.

I'm very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.

You are exacerbating inequality rather than opening up opportunity.

It's one thing to talk about lack of diversity and lack of representation. But that doesn't matter if you're not good at what you're supposed to be doing.

If you don't deserve to play, you won't play.

I've heard people say I'm a Curry and that helped me get where I am. Sometimes I think it's the opposite.

Eminem heard my music, and he didn't wanna take a meeting with me.

There are a lot of players competing for that wide attacking role, and if I'm brutally honest, if you aren't playing regularly, you can't get picked. I found that out, missing out on the World Cup.

I'll never know what happens behind closed doors or why I don't get hired for things.

If you exclude a group of people from the boardroom or the leadership ranks of a company, the company is not as good as it could be.

But at the end of the day, the lottery of birth shouldn't determine your value to the world.

Our system rewards specific talents more than anything. I got pushed forward for having certain capacities. Others had their horizons systematically lowered for having capacities that our academic system had no use for. I've seen countless people lose heart and feel like they should settle for less, that they don't deserve abundance.

I wasn't picked for the improv group in college - not because I wasn't good, but because I was told I didn't fit the group, didn't gel with their dynamic.

I was meeting a lot of directors and reading scripts, and I was like, "Well, I'd love to play this part," but I couldn't.

I don't think the world works on merit.

I just want an opportunity. If you don’t like the audition, don’t hire me! But if you don’t want to even see me - that’s hurtful. And why? You know nothing about me!

All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.

When Time got rid of my column, I thought it was all over. It was really sad. And then, I just started pushing it to lots of places. And I thought someone would run my column, I thought it was popular, and no one wanted it.