Erik Larson Quotes

As much as I've always dreamed of going to college, I have to think about whether it is the right decision for me.

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

I was thinking of going to college or staying in L.A. to act, and I stayed to give it a chance. I'm glad I did. I've had a lot of wonderful experiences - some horrible ones, but mostly really beautiful ones.

I never saw myself going to college. Even when I was looking at different schools, I was like, this really isn't right.

The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.

I was very lucky: a lot of people go through the college system not knowing what they want to do. Thankfully my parents were very supportive of my choices and pretty much gave me free reign.

Very early in my career, I almost went to journalism school.

Finding out whether I had made the grades for my first choice university course or whether I needed to rethink my future was terrifying.

You can't plan your future.

Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.

You never know / What opportunity / Is going to travel to you, / Or through you.

Luck is the grand equalizer.

You never have a consistent job as an actor, so you're always looking for the next thing. It's defined by the opportunities that come across your doorstep at the time. A career is totally in the hands of fate, in terms of how those opportunities arise.

I've had to make really big decisions, knowing the results were not always in my control. Through these moments, I've learned to be daring and take risks but understand that everything always happens for a reason.

Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

The critical question is not whether you'll have luck, but what you do with the luck that you get.

Remember that nothing really important ever happens until someone takes a chance.

Life is the risk we cannot refuse.

The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.

Make chance essential.

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

One of the things I've learned in my life is that sometimes you've got to take a chance.

Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be.

When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.