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"I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity."
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"The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year."
"Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it."
"Fortunate are those who take the first steps."
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."
"The big miracle you await will likely first appear in a small encounter or chance event. So always be aware and open, you never know what today will bring."
"The opportunities that can be envisioned then created are endless."
"Everything in the world is potentially yours. Don't limit yourself to your own means."
"Opportunity's precious, and time is a sword."
"Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities."
"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."
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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."
"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."
"If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance."
"If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that."
"The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone."
"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."
"A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature."
"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."
"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."
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