Miguel Cotto Quotes

I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It's going to happen when it's supposed to happen. I'm not rushing it. I'm not trying to make it happen tomorrow.

I graduated college in 1992 and didn't reach a sizable audience with my column for nine solid years. If I had started ten years later, or ten years sooner, everything could have happened sooner, obviously. But if I had started fifteen years later? I don't know.

Timing in life is everything.

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.

Timing in life is everything.

There comes a point in an actor's life when they have to just lie back and let things fall into place.

Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.

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

I'm not a believer of luck. I think opportunity and hard work becomes luck.

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

Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.

I'm such a profound believer that timing is everything; I would tattoo that on my arm.

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

Ideally I'd like to be working steadily as an actor: movies, a TV series, that sort of thing. I've been through a few different TV development cycles, and they didn't work out. When the time and project are right, it'll come together. Like I tell a lot of guys, it's not a race; there's no finish line.

I believe things are meant to be. It's the only way I can explain it because I had auditioned before to get on 'The X Factor' and 'Britain's Got Talent,' and I didn't get through - it was literally, 'No!'

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

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

Certain projects find you at the right time.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.

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.

All things come round to him who will but wait.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

I came into the world at the right time.