Patrick Chan Quotes

Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.

The first year I sold a photo to was a lady who thought I was a chef, for some reason. I've no idea why.

I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.

The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.

Shows have been sold out. It's overwhelming, you know. I had no idea what to expect with this new sound and everything and just to see so many people just come out and embrace it, it's overwhelming.

I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through a series of divine things that I had no control over and had no idea were going to happen, it got in the movie, and that changed everything.

I've had projects before where everyone says 'This is going to be the big thing,' and it doesn't really turn out to be. Then there is a little project you do and forget about, and then it comes out, and it's huge.

When I did 'Shaft', I was so happy to be working and to have been a star of a major motion picture, I had no idea or concept of where it was going to go, and it turned out to be this huge film. That was the icing on the cake.

I loved '24', but I didn't think anyone else would. I had absolutely no idea.

I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.

My career progressed slowly. Real slow at a time. The irony of it was I had the best part of my career between when I was 45 and 49 years old. That's when most people are in their twilight, waiting to get to the Champions Tour. And that's when I made most of my hay.

I'm astonished by my success. I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

You never know what's going to happen sometimes, or what you think's going to happen never happens, or when you least expect it, the Santana record comes along and just blows up.

I had no idea that I was ever getting into music. I did not prepare for a music career, and here I've found, out of pure luck, that I did have, not only a talent and an ear, but a passion for music. And I have it to this day.

I had no idea In-N-Out was going to fall on my lap as soon as it did.

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.

This funny little film we did called 'Sharknado' has caused so much buzz, I would have never imagined. It's literally caused more buzz than anything else I've ever done. I had no idea that it was going to turn into this phenomenon.

I never thought I'd be doing records a year after I started - I had no idea it would last as long as it did.

I've found I sometimes have the best success working on characters I didn't really connect to right away.

Wexford started off as a very conventional, tough cop and not a very original character because I had no idea I was writing a series, of course. I had no idea I'd created a series character.

I have no idea why I won, man. I guess some people liked the music that I was doing. I'm just lucky. I was just doing my thing each week.

It's a little counterintuitive to people, that doing what people don't expect ends up being what people do expect. But that is true of Mac.