Bill Duke Quotes

I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.

I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky, briefly, in the '90s, and it just so happened that those movies were the opportunities that came my way. Then it just kind of stopped.

To be employed in the entertainment industry is a miracle.

With a modest amount of looks and talent, and more than a modicum of serendipity, I've managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into 50 years of good fortune.

Becoming an actress was just about being in the right place at the right time.

Being an actor is like winning the lottery. It's not really about your talent, it's right time, right place, right face.

Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.

Even with talent, it's who you meet at the right time that tips the scales.

I feel like I have just been really, really lucky to meet some of the most successful and great actors alive today.

I just always loved to perform and I was lucky enough to be in front of the right people at the right time!

What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage.

I don't think anyone can tell you what it is that makes you a star.

To this day, I don't know what shapes a Hollywood career.

Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.

I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.

The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

I was actually away in Africa doing 'Generation Kill' while everyone was auditioning for Twilight. They all had, like, five different auditions: I was so lucky that I came back from Africa just in time and the actor who was playing Emmett fell through, lucky for me!

There are lots of actors out there who are hugely, hugely talented and haven't got the breaks I've had.

I had never dreamt I'd become an actress. It was destiny that put me in the right place at the right time and gave me the right opportunities.

To pursue a career in Hollywood you have to have a personality bypass. Look at the top 20 stars in the world - there's probably only two actors among them. Hollywood's not about you as an actor. It's about your currency, what you 'bring to the table'. And I've never been one to jump through hoops for anyone.

I was just so lucky with 'Real Women Have Curves.' At that point, I would have done an insurance commercial. I would have done anything.

Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor.

The one time I was an actor, it happened to be in a globally dominant juggernaut. That was lucky.

Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.

There are great actors we'll never see just because they haven't had my luck.