Quotes About Chance

When you're in something like 'Game of Thrones' and get the chance to play a part like Bronn, with that cast and with Peter Dinklage, it's wonderful.

Usually on jobs I'm quite philosophical and think 'The right girl gets the part and everything is meant to be.'

Part of the philosophy of 'The Dice Man' is that you have got to be laughing at yourself at every moment and be free of yourself at every moment.

If I don't impress you in an interview then fine, but at least give me that chance. That's all I want; to talk to a chairman or owner about my philosophy and what I can do for their team.

I got a phone call from Douglas Campbell and from Jerome Guthrie, who offered me a job out of the blue.

The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.

I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

I was discovered by a photographer. I literally was in the right place at the right time.

Photography is an accident.

I came to photography by accident.

Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck.

I think Ada in 'The Piano' is the most interior character I've ever had the chance to play, either on the stage or in anything I've done for film or TV.

I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

You can't pick and choose who's going to win or who's gonna mess up.

As far as I'm aware, you can't tell if something is going to be successful. Brilliant scripts often don't get picked up, and terrible ones do all the time!

At Sporting I have found the trust and I am at home. I had the chance to come and I immediately picked it up.

You pick your destiny or maybe destiny picks you. But it picked me to box, definitely.

! discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens - and photography immediately started to invade my life.

Like, to do a pilot, you don't know what's going to happen with it.

Sometimes you get the pinball machine and sometimes the pinball machine gets you.

I always believed that all it would take was a decent role. I felt like a pinch hitter with a leaden bat: that if I got a chance, I could hit a home run.

When you get on the pitch, you've got to take your chance, and that's what I'm trying to do.

This should be the message of Occupy Wall Street: We just want a chance; our government needs to give us a chance.