Radhika Apte Quotes

I've come to learn that you can be very, very talented, but if you're not at the right place at the right time... It's a lot of luck.

I had never dreamt I'd become an actress. It was destiny that put me in the right place at the right time and gave me the right opportunities.

You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.

I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time.

Writing can be taken up at any point. But you need to remember that the arts are fundamentally unfair. Hard work and diligence won't necessarily take you all the way. Talent, nepotism, influence, and pure luck play a huge part.

I really feel very blessed, and I don't forget it, either; there's an awful lot of wonderful talent in this world, and I just seem to be in the right place at the right time.

There are such pretty faces and so many more talents and people with more potential, but they never get their chance because they are not at the right place at the right time.

Winning often teaches you about losing and losing often teaches you about winning and a lot of things also happen by luck and you have to be at the right place at the right time.

The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference.

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.

I'm just a girl from Harlem who ended up in the right place at the right time.

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.

I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.

You often hear people say 'Luck is self made.' I think it is, to a certain extent; if you work hard on something, you are more likely to be lucky than if you don't. That having been said, I do believe during in my career I have been at the right place at the right time with the right people.

A lot of it, as it is in any job in life, is being in the right place at the right time.

You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you.

I do still sit back and wonder when I'm in LA if this is all really true or is it all kid-on. But it's great. I always bear in mind that the right place and time have a huge deal to do with it, and there are hugely talented actors who haven't had that break.

I'll pat myself on the back and admit I have talent. Beyond that, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.

It's no good being talented and not being in the right place at the right time.

Whatever we do, whatever our backgrounds, we've all had some kind of advantage somewhere along the way. Some break that might have gone to someone else. Some edge or inside track we couldn't have counted on.