Making the Most of Chances Quotes

I always had the confidence. The platform, guys getting injured and giving me multiple opportunities, that has allowed me to showcase it.

If I get another chance to star in Hollywood movies in the future, I am going to do my best to proudly show the best of Henry to the world.

When opportunity knocks, invite it to stay for dinner.

Once I got that chance to play, I never wanted to look back. And that's what I did.

Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball, and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.

When I look at my situation, yes, there were a lot of things... small school, didn't play much... but I knew that when I played, I won. And I also played in more of a pro system, so I understood the game of football. That helped me translate when I finally did get my opportunity.

Ain't no chance if you don't take it.

I've always had this incredible sense of urgency. I've always had this desire not to let things fester and to really seize the moment, because it's serendipity.

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

You've got to stay ready, especially around here. That's what we preach, you'll get your opportunity whether it comes at the beginning or in the middle or in the end whenever it may be. When your time comes, you need to be ready to go because you're going to earn your minutes

When I think back on it, of course I got lucky and got great directors and good breaks but all that was the physical part. But what made me a star was that I could take a chance and not have anything to worry about in terms of losing.

I love talking to the audience, and I must be the luckiest performer in the world. I always land something or somebody that just takes off.

Woody Allen has a wonderful line: 'Today I'm a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?' That's very important to know - that you have the moment, then you lose the moment. You have to see your chances, you have to take them, and you also have to see when you don't have chances to take.

I'm looking to try to do more out there and just taking advantage of the opportunities that I've been given.

When I'm asked to be aggressive and shoot the ball, I gotta take advantage of that.

Most seem to think that while a person may not be responsible for the opportunities he gets in life, each is entirely responsible for what he makes of these opportunities.

I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.

When Mindy Kaling asks, I try my best to say yes.

Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

I definitely need to use my chances when they come because definitely there wont be many.

If there's an opportunity to go out there and show what I can do, I'm going to do it.

Nothing's really been handed to me, and I've stayed in the game long enough to get an opportunity that I've been hopefully knocking it out of the park every chance I get.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!