Chuck Klosterman Quotes

I always had ambitions to work in the U.K. I just never thought it was gonna happen so soon. So I think, obviously, I wouldn't have gotten 'The Riot Club' if I wasn't in England. I wouldn't have gotten 'Pride' if I hadn't done 'The Riot Club.' And so maybe I would just have been on a totally different trajectory, but who knows?

I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point.

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.

'Tyrannosaur's an arrival for me, but it's also the first step into a new career. I don't want to be moonlighting at this, like I have done with acting. Y'know, I think I've found my career at 37 years old.

As far as I'm concerned, I want to do everything because life is short. So, when I did 'The Red Violin' film, I got to go to the Oscars, and I got to meet Samuel Jackson, and I got to do stuff that one wouldn't normally do in my world.

Until I was 21, I wasn't going into the media. I was a professional show jumper; I was going to have a farm... Then my father died, and it changed my life. I realised I had to have a go at being a journalist to see if I could cut the mustard.

My life was really interesting before 'Chic.'

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

I followed a girl I met in Japan to Los Angeles and ended up working in a motorcycle store. I quit the job one night, went to a party in the Hollywood Hills and ended up yelling at a bunch of people. Someone saw me yelling and asked me to be in a play. The first night, there was an agent in the audience who took me on and sent me out for jobs.

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.

I was a waiter before 'The Office,' so to me, this was a winning lottery ticket. Everything about my life has changed.

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.

About 10 minutes before I found out that I had landed 'Fantastic Beasts', I got a residual check in the mail for zero dollars. On the check it said 'Advice Slip.' And I was like, 'Well, what's the advice? Go into another line of work?

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.

I thought my first few jobs would just be off, off, off, off, off broadway. And by chance and how the world works, I ended up on a TV show instead.

I basically came from nothing and turned my life into something.

Moving to Glasgow from Feyenoord was a life-changing experience.

My situation, and my opportunity, was the fourth tier in Swedish football and a place that nobody really wanted to go to. Of course it's turned out well for me.

The way I look at it is I try to take advantage of every opportunity I've got.

I just wanted to change my life. I wanted to change everything. The first team that called me was Toronto FC. It was a quick choice.

Sometimes the career you end up with has no logical connection to where you began.

I never thought that I would become Nia Sharma. I never imagined I would end up earning this much money. I never thought I would earn this much in my entire life.

If I do my job, take advantage of every opportunity I get out there and be in the right spot, the plays will come. When it does come, I've got to take advantage of it.

I come from a cycling background. I happened to be good at it; the opportunities came my way. It wasn't something I necessarily searched to be involved in; it wasn't a dream. I just had an opportunity which you couldn't refuse.