Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That’s the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.
‘Ashes of Time’ was my third film, and as a young director at that point, it’s not very often that you have the chance to make a big martial arts film, so of course I jumped at this opportunity.
It was a fun film. I had a great time doing it. I was looking for a role just like that for my first movie role. I didn’t want to have a starring role, because I wanted a chance to learn. I didn’t want the whole thing riding on me.
I think what’s different about working on stage is that you have another chance to portray it again. If you don’t get something right on film, you can do another take, but on stage, once it’s done, it’s done. You can’t go back.
I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.
The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.
For people who have heart disease, statins are great. But if all you’ve had is high cholesterol, what you’re doing is taking this 1/100 chance of getting a benefit and offsetting it with 1/200 chance of getting diabetes.
‘The Voice’ gave me a chance to show people the side of me that is an artist. People didn’t know what that would look like or sound like. It allowed people to see that potential.
I’ve always felt that kids are a lot smarter than we’ve given them credit for, but we’ve never given them a chance to figure things out as they’re watching television.
I rock with Chance, I rock with Kanye, I rock with Common.
The more times you go after it the more times you’ll get the ball. So every chance I get I try to chase down the rebound.
I don’t think that everyone should become a mathematician, but I do believe that many students don’t give mathematics a real chance.
I like to think if something scares me, then there’s a very good chance an audience will feel the same way. The key is creating scenarios that people can relate to.
When you think of things like medicine, people who have lost limbs now have a chance to have a limb replaced that is connected to the brain that they can actually control with their mind. That’s amazing.
If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.
Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
The moment we put up the PayPal button, some guy donated $300. That’s when we realized that if you give somebody a chance to support something on the Internet, they’ll do it.
To take over a bottom club is the best thing that can happen to you as a coach. There’s a significantly higher chance that you can turn things around than failing.
I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we’ll get to rest.
Words can’t describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don’t think you have a chance of getting.
Playing it safe isn’t fun; you have to take a chance.
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
I work very, very hard, so when I do get the chance to go out socially, it’s a relatively big night. I also have hobbies on the side, and quite often, one runs into the other.
I believe as a born-again Christian that once you’ve had a chance to drink from the well, it becomes your responsibility to replenish the well.
Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.
