Zac Efron Quotes

I've always said just give me an opportunity and I'm going to make the most of it.

I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.

When you get as lucky as I got, you have to work as hard as possible to earn that luck.

It's a very competitive industry, and so much of it does come down to luck, so I feel very blessed that I've been given the opportunities that I have, and I guess that's what fuels me - the fight to keep going.

If someone gives you an opportunity, you better maximize it so that he wants to give you the next one.

It can be a grind, training and fighting and waiting for your chance. But when that opportunity presents itself, you have to be ready because you never know if or when you'll get another shot.

Luck does play a huge role in whatever field you're practicing, whether that's medicine, acting, singing; but the way you make luck work for you is you constantly put yourself in a position to get lucky.

I haven't wasted many opportunities that fate gave me.

Give me an opportunity, I'm going to take advantage of those opportunities.

Don't get me wrong: I've had a lot of fortune, to come where I've come from, to be able to move to Europe, to go racing. But I had that fortune behind me. I grabbed it with both hands, and I made the best of it.

Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.

That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck.

It looks like I've been smart about it, but truly, I've been incredibly lucky to have the right people notice me and want to work with me.

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

I started off as a model and struggled for some time until I got a break as an actress. I was too stubborn to let go and was sure I was in the right place at the right time. I just fought and I think that's how I am where I am today.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

My making it is a combination of grinding, grinding, grinding and being lucky enough to finally get a shot.

I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family to work, and instead of remaining in the position into which I was sent, I somehow worked my way out of it without any help from anyone, just luck.

I had no idea that all the things in my career were going to happen. I sure didn't see it. I just know the good Lord blessed me with ability, blessed me with good eyesight and a good pair of hands, and then I worked at the rest.

I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

I've certainly been very blessed. I can only say that I worked very hard in class and on set doing the best that I can at the moment. I was incredibly blessed with 'Battlestar'... I tried to work my little butt off just to keep up with everybody else and not too many people kicked me.

It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.

One chance is all you need.