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"I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity."
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"The present offers fresh opportunities."

"Always you can find what you want, if you search enough times."

"Time given out through jobs can be channeled into something productive."

"Joblessness opens the door for greater opportunities."

"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself."

"Yeah," I said because it led to more options than 'no'."

"God has made the provision for every man on earth to be equally endowed with the currency time."

"The window of opportunity is always open, just you have to find it."

"Opportunities that always fail need change, else they will continue to keep failing till the future have its end."

"Don't only think of which job to get and live on. Think about which problem to solve and the jobs will keep suggesting themselves."
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"You are faced with the choice: either my integrity remains intact and this is the work that ends up on the screen, or I have to leave, and I have to be known to have left."

"In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar."

"In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision."

"In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor."

"The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable."

"What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself."

"When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors."

"I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed."

"I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do."

"I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience."
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