Quotes About Chance

When you play semifinals on a Grand Slam, anything can happen, so you must be ready for the chance.

United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing?

When the movie 'Sliding Doors' came out, it almost sent me into existential crisis because I think about that all the time. Like, 'Wait. If I left my house five minutes later, maybe this would have happened and I'd be on this different track of my life. How would that affect me?'

The slightest thing can ruin a scene, but you must be willing to take chances.

My life has been a series of slightly happy accidents.

You can't just say, 'This team's going to win,' or 'This team's going to lose.' Anything can happen. So what you can control is winning your game as much as possible. If you don't do that, and then the other team has a chance to lose, and they lose, and you didn't go about it the right way, now you just let that slip.

Don't let your opportunities slip away.

I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

Sometimes you can get sloppy and control the ball right at your feet, and that gives the defenders a chance.

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

I'm not a poker player; I play slot machines.

I might put a couple of quarters in a slot machine, but I don't know how to play roulette.

The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.

I'm a gambler and love slot machines.

Get yourself into every audition that you can. Even in those for smaller roles, you'll never know when someone may recommend you for a bigger one.

I'm lucky that I get to do the bigger movies and the smaller movies.

I'd always rather be lucky than smart.

I like to think of the world as a sort of a casino, except the house doesn't have the advantage. If you're smart, you have an advantage. It behooves you to place a lot of bets.

There are plenty of people smarter than you by a long way. I just got lucky.

Everybody has ways in which they've been lucky in life, and everybody also has ways in which they've definitely rolled snake eyes.

Once in a while, I try to sneak in something less known anyway.

There are so many opportunities that I could've gotten before if I had just took a little more of a risk.

I've always thought of the United States as a place where so much was possible and so many opportunities were out there.

I believe that things just happen in life, and pretty much after the fact, we make up a story to make it all seem rational. We all like simple stories that suggest a causal chain to life's events. Yet randomness is ever present.