Rodney Hood Quotes

Everything has been such a whirlwind ever since I stepped foot in the league and everything has been like a dream, so I'm just blessed to be in this position.

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

When I get asked for advice for a young person starting in the music business, I tell them, 'Play every chance you get, and be real lucky.'

I did so many interviews and auditions for films, and it was just zilch. Nothing I did impressed anybody! I could just feel it. It was always, 'Okay, thank you, Mr. Lloyd.' Then, out of the blue, 'Cuckoo's Nest' came to cast. A casting director who sent me up for different things over the years sent me up for that, and it just clicked.

If you're not a player, it's hard to get into this league. You need a small opportunity that you turn into a bigger opportunity.

There are guys throughout the NFL that get the chance one way or the other.

You never know what ultimately will give traction to being a star.

When I entered Bollywood, I didn't have any advantage over anyone. I didn't know how to act, I was not from the industry, I didn't know the language, and I didn't know how to dance. So, whatever films I was getting, I was just taking them up.

I'm lucky. I got a chance to play major-league baseball.

I understand that, in this league, there are a lot of guys who can be All Stars, be superstars, so timing and circumstance plays a huge role.

I would not have succeeded as a comedian had I not had some hugely lucky breaks.

You don't know how long you have in public life... I want to make the best of it while I've got the role.

There's probably somebody out there who has been dying to be Tony Stark, their whole life, and it will never happen. And then, it comes to me because I happened to do 'Heroes.' I mean, I love it. I'm totally respectful of the position, but I wasn't pursuing it.

I had no clue on what I wanted to do when I was younger, so I was pretty lucky with this YouTube thing.

There's no reason but luck that I'm in one of the biggest bands in music.

I was lucky enough to take a chance on Arsenal.

I really feel blessed to be in a position I am, to even have an opportunity to play in the league.

It's a luxury to play. I get to play basketball for a living. I'm a lucky guy and I'm thankful for everything I have and what I get to do. I realize how many people would give their left foot to just play one game in the NBA. This is the NBA!

That's kind of the nature of the profession I'm in. It's frustrating. Things don't go your way, and I was no exception, in that I spent many years struggling to get work, and there are a lot of people more talented than myself who got jobs before me. And I finally, after years and years and years, got lucky.

The world has changed a great deal from when I began 50 years ago. I was very fortunate. There were a lot of opportunities that perhaps don't exist today.

Throughout my career I've always felt like certain things come to me at the right time.

I never dreamed about being on a hit television series. I've never really related my dreams to that specific of a work goal. I was always enjoying the moment. Acting, writing, looking for roles and getting involved with people and trying to create something that would be entertaining to people. With "E.R." we were all very lucky to get this combination of people together in the right story in the right way to take it to the level it has reached.

So much of life, so much of work, is luck.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

America's been very, very good to me. I've been very lucky and worked a lot there, and appreciate and love the work that I've done.