Charlize Theron Quotes

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

It is better to have opportunities than to have wisdom.

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

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

You can be great only if it is your destiny.

I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time.

Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.

When it comes to opportunities, your father or mother can only set up a meeting for you. However, your opportunities will only materialise if the star kid is talented or suits the role.

The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference.

It's a very wonderful yet difficult thing to be given a lot of really good opportunities and the world is at your fingertips.

I feel like I have just been really, really lucky to meet some of the most successful and great actors alive today.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are.

Talent doesn't always equal success.

We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.

There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

I felt like there were so many talented people who should be getting what I have.

Certain people get an opportunity because they happen to be in the right place at the right time. It has no bearing on their talent. I don't think we should look at it and feel bitter about it. That's the way the cookie crumbles in all professions.

To get to the top, you must put in a lot of hard work, but you also need to be blessed with talent.

There are such pretty faces and so many more talents and people with more potential, but they never get their chance because they are not at the right place at the right time.

There is no question that I was given a lot of interesting and unique opportunities growing up... But I think people often misunderstand that I work as hard and want things just as badly as anybody else.

All you can ask for is the chance to win.

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