Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes

I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work.

Like all actors, after every job, I think, 'Well, that's the last one, and I'd better think about doing something else.' But I've been so very lucky, and I've managed to keep going for a long time. It's just the way the cookie crumbles, and it's crumbled pretty well for me. I appreciate it, and I realise how lucky I am.

Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.

I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.

I look at all these wonderful actors who are out of work, and I don't know what accounts for my good fortune, but I'm grateful for it.

I've been incredibly lucky. I know what it's like to be an unemployed actor, to beat the bricks. I've been in the right place at the right time.

I don't think I could ever describe myself as unlucky because people would look at me, playing football for a living, and say: 'Are you winding me up?'

I've been crazy lucky that I've never had a day job. I get really close to having no money, then I always wind up getting some kind of great job.

I don't get bothered about statistics. If somebody had pointed out to me the odds of my being a working actress getting paid for what she does, I probably would have quit early in the game.

I decided I'm gonna make my living from this, or I'm not doing it. The last time I had a job that wasn't an acting job was '88, and I'm quite proud of that.

I seem to be landing really great locations on a lot of my work. I hope that continues, knock on wood.

My success has been as full of luck as a crapshooter's dream.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

I graduated college in 1983, so that's 32 years, and all I've done for a living is act or commercials or voiceovers. So I have nothing to complain about.

I just lived it and did my own thing without looking over my shoulder. I think I'm very lucky, considering when I started everything, and the fact that I have a masters in music, and I've always worked in music, and that's what I wanted to do.

I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.

The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.

I was lucky - the first eight productions I auditioned for, I got cast.

I've been pretty lucky in the leading men department.

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!

I've honestly been really lucky. My only jobs have been babysitting and acting.

When I started acting, I thought if I got one or two jobs a year I'd be lucky. So yeah, my career has gone so much farther than I ever suspected it would, and as such I feel lucky for everything I get. I feel thankful and grateful.

I'm one of those fortunate actors who gets to work pretty much every day. I've had a run of good fortune and work with some terrific people who have hired me.