Rare Opportunities Quotes

Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.

You only get so many firsts, each one is a blessing.

You don't get a chance to go to the playoffs and World Series very often, but to be able to experience it with the people you love most in the world is really fun.

To find a good script is very important, because the chances and opportunities I would be getting will be very far and few.

Just coming to terms with the fact that I got to play April Wheeler [Revolutionary Road] and Hanna Schmitz [The Reader] in one year, let alone in my lifetime. I'm very, very aware of how rare that is as an opportunity for any one person. I can't tell you how much I've been able to take away from these experiences creatively. I really, really learned so much about acting, about myself... all of those things. It's difficult to talk about the actor's process without sounding like an arrogant asshole but they really were very challenging.

The opportunities to become an astronaut in Canada were far and few.

The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby.

It's so rare that you actually get the part that you really, really, really want.

Those opportunities to play in championship games are few and far between.

A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.

Once in a life time deals come around about every three weeks or so.

The reality is that there are so few roles out there for women and for women of color, and I'm a character actor, this I know. And I'm getting to see more of the roles that are out there, but there aren't many. And zilch have been studio movies. Zilch.

Unfortunately, there are not many people in the world who get to experience the Olympic Games.

Nothing else is as fulfilling as playing a part in which you are able to have a significant say in the creative process all the way through. How many actors get to do that? It's extremely rare.

'Strictly' is a bit like scoring the winning goal in the FA Cup Final or sinking the final putt in the Ryder Cup - only a few people get the opportunity to do it, and they have got to be famous.

The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare.

I don't get many good offers. I like to follow the same kind of path I follow in France. If I don't feel the movie is very original or has a good amount of potential, I don't do it. In the films I've done I can feel I'm part of a specific universe, but those sorts of opportunities are quite rare.

There are so few times in life where you are passionate about anything. And I think that if you can find that, you should just hold on to it and protect it at all costs and just follow it, because it's so rare.

The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.

It's very, very rare to find five roles in one piece where we'd all jump at the chance to play any of them.