I’ve been fortunate. I don’t pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

Few people realize that luck is created.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

I’ve been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

I bear a charmed life.

We think it’s fun for our kids to have cameos and join us on set, but not to be actors. That’s not our goal for Brad and me at all. I think we would both prefer that they didn’t become actors.

Playing big, heroic characters with heart is always a lot of fun. I enjoy making movies like that, and a lot of people love to live vicariously through those characters.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting. But you can go from acting to being a TV personality to being a radio personality to being a writer to being a producer, to just being a visionary, to voiceover work.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

I’ve always loved the idea of playing Black Adam.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

It’s going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I’ll risk saying that we’ll be lucky if something really serious doesn’t happen.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

I got started as an actor when I was 12.

I always play women I would date.

Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

On ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ I wouldn’t care what I was playing – I would play a corpse, ‚cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Every wall is a door.

I am really proud that I am one of the artists that has the opportunity to be on magazine covers and to be in the movies.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

I don’t have a vast longing for the stage.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

America is another name for opportunity.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That’s the way I always work.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion’s heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

‚Soul Plane‘ put me in a position to succeed. I’m glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.

It’s really fun to put yourself into a character – into shoes you wouldn’t normally be in.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I’m very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I’m feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It’s gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‚Wow, that movie‘ – or that show or whatever – ‚turned out really well.‘