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Big Break Quotes
On opportunity, luck, and the moment careers turn.
These big break quotes cover very different paths to opportunity, from a life-changing scholarship to a competition win that opened new doors. See our Opportunity quotes for more on seizing a chance.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mercedes
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- Nov 07, 2020
My big break came at 22 years old when I joined the Mercedes Benz touring championship team.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.'
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first big break was 'White Chicks.' I had only been acting for about two years and I certainly didn't feel like I was ready for such an opportunity. It could only be the hand of God blessing me. I accept everything I'm given with great appreciation.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My big break was when I won 'Search for a Supermodel Australia,' and then I came second in the world series, and that was all good, but I was just having fun; it wasn't real to me.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
For many years prior to landing my big break with WWE, I learned a lot about uphill battles. I had to scratch and claw day after day for a really big dream that, at many times, seemed totally impossible.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started with theater when I was 9 years old and then got into television when I was 16, but I would say my first big break was 'Lady, La Vendedora de Rosas', a telenovela that was very successful all across Latin America.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.
- Nov 07, 2020
What you think is going to be a big break or opportunity can sometimes turn into the opposite, and vice versa.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Catherine Zeta-Jones started out like me. Her big break in Hollywood was in 'Zorro.'
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
My big break down here was working with Steven Spielberg in '1941.' It was a very small role, as Corporal Foley, who was part of the tank crew with Dan Aykroyd.
- Break Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
That result at the French was a big break for me. I had been playing quite well up until that point but nobody really expected me to do well on clay - it was my worst surface. I had had some success on the clay but I was a set and a break up in the semi-final against Jausovec and maybe the enormity of the occasion got to me.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020