Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that's why I'm on TV. I wasn't going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place - I've always done that.
Don't hope someone gives you an opportunity: create one for yourself.
I believe in making your own opportunity.
The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.
I just wanted to give myself a chance to be an athlete because I really loved the game of basketball.
No one gave me an opportunity, which I desperately needed in my struggling days. If there is one thing that I have learned during that period is that you need to create an opportunity yourself if you want to live your dream.
People whine, 'I haven't succeeded because I haven't had the breaks.' You create your own breaks.
I discovered that my biggest passion was for directing, so in making opportunity for myself, I found what I like doing the best.
