KSI Quotes

I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that seems to have led me to better places than if I had followed some career trajectory, which I wouldn't even know how to start.

I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.

Sometimes it's okay for careers to find you.

I mean, I knew I wanted to do this kind of thing in school, but to actually have somebody that would bring you into that world, that was really exciting, you know?

After five awful movies, I admitted failure and said I was not cut out to be an actor. But how many people get a chance to live their dream?

I kind of fell into acting. I was very lucky.

I always knew that I wanted to work and I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actor. I knew that every choice I made would help me get to that point. So the better the choices I made, the more of a chance I would have to get to where I wanted to be.

At the end of the day, you should take every opportunity that comes your way.

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.

A friend bought me a plane ticket to Hawaii, which is where I got discovered and became an actor, so I guess a friend bought me a winning lottery ticket.

Hopefully, kids realize you can do anything you want. Skateboarding can be that gateway.

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

If I can sit on national television, and people are listening to what I think, anyone can do anything.

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 was discovered out of nowhere. I didn't have family that was in the industry. I didn't know anyone in L.A.; I didn't have any reason to have been discovered. Nowadays, you have YouTube, and people are scouting more, but I really was plucked out of obscurity.

It fell into my lap. I grew up doing dance classes. And one day, a film production company contacted my dance school looking for background dancers. I wasn't looking for it. It just happened. And I found myself on set. And that was that.

I was fortunate enough to crash the right audition when I was 15, and just took it from there.

It wasn't until Joe Maddon called me in 2006 when I thought about pursuing a coaching career.

Sometimes you have to take a risk if you want great things to happen.

I got the opportunity, and I grabbed it, and slowly, I started finding a lot of interest in acting.

I want to be a director - and you need to get out there and do it, you can't wait 'til it comes to you... I'd give anything to be able to do what Ron Howard's done.

I never thought I would actually become a professional actor. I just kept going with it. One thing led to another.

I know opportunities will come my way.

Some people suggested that I should try something else. It was a lot of things, but nothing really stood out for me. Nothing felt right, and this job as an actor happened by coincidence.

I was lucky to be passionate about a field that was full of opportunity.