Quotes About Chance

I got called back for 'Game Of Thrones,' and they nearly cast me.

I always show loyalty to the people who gave me a chance from the get-go, and Cincinnati gave me that chance.

I got to Germany without being scouted, and without any experience of playing for my country. But I was given the chance to excel.

Every time you're given a job, you're given a gift, and if you're flexible, you never know what's going to happen.

Within what gifts you are given you can change certain events in your life and some people choose not to do that.

I'm really looking forward to it because it will give me the opportunity to do the whole other kind of approach to the music live that I haven't had a chance to do. and I think is important for me to do.

You can't say you're an actor if you've never acted, and you can't act if no one gives you an opportunity, but they won't give you an opportunity because you've never acted. You're like, 'What in the world? Someone give me a chance!'

All I've ever said I need is an opportunity. Give me a chance, and I'll take it with both hands and run with it.

I am glad I am born in this era, but, at the same time, my success will totally depend on the choices I make.

'Glee' found me. I didn't really go looking for it.

I never expected an offer to direct 'Chandramukhi.' It happened and brought me glory.

Luck is something you find, or you go for it.

Obviously, if you get a chance to be in Alexander Payne's movie, you're going to go for it, or you'd be a crazy person.

Life goes on if you're one of the lucky ones.

I'm not looking to double my money with one golden opportunity.

There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.

I've had an awful lot of good fortune.

Luck certainly had a hand in my good fortune. I can't deny that. But it came down to more than luck.

I've always been lucky enough to have made the right decisions, if I can say that. I've always felt that I've had good fortune in that way.

It's always pretty cool to hit a card on the river, especially when you're lucky enough to do it two days in a row. But good fortune doesn't last forever.

I've never gone around looking for roles. It has been my good luck that all the films that I have done, the filmmakers have approached me.

I still think that luck is what a lot of the good things come from. It's simply the luck of where you are, when.

Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.

What they had in common was that, like us, they believed (or sometimes believed and sometimes didn't believe; or wanted to believe; or liked to think they believed) that the universe, that everything there is, didn't come about by chance but was created by God. Like us they believed, on their best days anyway, that all appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, this God was a God like Jesus, which is to say a God of love. That, I think, is the crux of the matter.