John Ortiz Quotes

I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am.

Sometimes, things just fall into your lap, and that's pretty incredible.

This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.

Getting into television was a total fluke.

Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience.

Actually, the books were never a planned career path.

My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me.

I am somebody who is very lucky. 'Kaanta Laga' just fell into my lap and even 'Baby Come Naa.'

The journey from engineering to acting just happened. I guess some things are meant to be.

Fate has blessed me.

It was a total accident that I walked into my 'Super 8' audition looking exactly right for the part.

How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?

A project like 'Rizzoli & Isles' is something you can't pursue. It's something that comes to you... I like to call it 'fairy dust.' And it happened without my having to do anything.

There is always room for coincidence.

I never intended to be a teacher, but once I started teaching, I found that junior high kids are easy to get hooked on, and I stayed for nearly twenty years.

Good luck needs no explanation.

I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.

I guess you just fall into things when to you're supposed to.

I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.

It's ridiculous. My life's been a series of happy accidents.

I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work.

Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. I thought, 'Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I auditioned for a soap!'

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

I never really wanted to be a model. But when the opportunity came, I grabbed it.

The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.