Nina Dobrev Quotes

Acting is something that I couldn't recommend to anyone because the odds of it working out are so insane. I don't know how it worked out for me. I had no connections to this industry. I had no ins anywhere.

It takes a lot of things to work together in order to be wealthy but with a little luck, a lot of luck... You've got to be good at something. For a 20-year-old, you don't have to know exactly what you want to do, you've just got to go find something you can be great at, and then go be great at it.

I've been quite lucky in that I've managed to tick off a few of my dream roles, really. Beyond that, you wait for the next script to come in that will have the dream role that you don't know exists yet, I suppose.

I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.

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.

All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and all those years of being a nobody following a dream-and now here it is.

Luck plays an important role in Bollywood. We all work really hard to earn success but our luck has to be on the right side, especially from where I come from.

Acting is my passion since childhood, and I am happy to be in Tinsel Town at a very young age.

It was a miracle that I became an actress. I survived because of hard work and perseverance.

If you have any talent, you can't be held back, and you can't be held down.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!

Never give up. Just follow your dreams because this business can be so hard sometimes. It doesn't happen overnight where you get an audition or even a callback and get the role. It takes time.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains.

You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring

I'd always wanted to act, but it was a question of whether acting wanted me and whether the movies wanted me.

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.

There are a lot of actors that are more talented than me at Second City who quit it before they even got to a paying status. Weird luck. I had no other option.

Dreams can come true, but you have to go for it.

So much luck! I'm not putting myself down, I'm not saying I don't have talent - I must have, to have got this far - but I honestly believe that some of the greatest actors in America are tending bar and waiting tables and driving taxis, and it will never happen for them.

I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me that if you have a gift there is always stuff to do.

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

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 know I've been lucky. But it's what you do with that luck afterwards that really defines whether you stick around.

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.

I try and get out there and audition as much as possible.