Waiting for Opportunity Quotes

I don't need to work right away. I'd rather wait for something really good; to be excited about a role, or a director, or a project.

Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot.

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live - with your self-respect alive and growing.

Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.

I tried for modelling work but it was a bit slow and that's when I took a part-time job at McDonalds. It gave me income while I was waiting for my big break and at the very least I could eat.

So many actors are lively-minded, creative people who just tread water in this awful way, waiting for the phone to ring and doing their hair for auditions. It feels like a bit of a dreamer's life - as opposed to a sensible ventriloquist's life.

In 1993 after giving a blockbuster 'Aankhen,' I had no work. I was sitting at home for a year.