Rhea Chakraborty Quotes

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you.

Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.

You might get one job for having a famous parent, but you won't get your second unless you're good.

You're only as good as your opportunities in this game and you're lucky to get some opportunities.

I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.

I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.

My name does help me get in the door, but it doesn't do the work for me.

I've always been, with acting, very hesitant to get myself into situations where I would be accused of nepotism.

Talent doesn't always equal success.

My last name may have opened doors, but I have to keep them open.

In nominating young women and men to our service academies, it must only be about who you are, not who you know.

It is better to have opportunities than to have wisdom.

Writing can be taken up at any point. But you need to remember that the arts are fundamentally unfair. Hard work and diligence won't necessarily take you all the way. Talent, nepotism, influence, and pure luck play a huge part.

Sure, it does help you get into a room, but at the end of the day, you have to be able to deliver, and you have to be talented, because they're not going to hire me because my dad is David Cassidy, who was famous in the '70s.

I was not broadcasting St. Louis Cardinals baseball because I was accomplished. I was broadcasting baseball at 21 years old because I was Jack Buck's son. I had a billion advantages.

There are superstars that deserve to be at the top and do give everything.

I have many dear friends in the film industry, but finally, the roles come to me on merit, not because of personal equations.

It is clear I have enough qualities to be in the starting XI of Liverpool. But when you never get a real chance, it's difficult.

Those who belong to the film families may have a certain advantage, but nobody can keep you in this business if you don't deserve it.

We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.

Opportunity shies away from need, but opportunity is attracted by talent and ability. What you don't want to happen is opportunity to turn cool on you. You don't want to offend opportunity. So the only thing you present to opportunity is ability, performance and skill. Don't present need to opportunity.

It so cliché to say some guys and girls need to step up, but there can be bigger stars and bigger names when people get their chance.