Michael Connelly Quotes

For me, I tend to sit back sometimes and just count my blessings because of how long I've played.

I couldn't possibly have any regrets, because I've been very lucky, I've been celebrated, and I've survived. I couldn't have one single regret. That would be absurd.

I think book publishing is fun, but I also know I've been very lucky.

It still amazes me when I look at some of the films I've been a part of, and some of the people I've gotten to meet and work with. I also look back sometimes and realize that I was lucky to have lived through them and even to have survived them, at times.

I've been very fortunate in the things I've had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the same types of memories as everyone else.

My whole life, I've wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.

I've done very well in the film business. Whenever I have wanted something, the film business has given it to me. I'm very fortunate. My big problem in life has always been, 'What do I want?'

I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now.

I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.

I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.

I've been very fortunate to go from interesting chapter to interesting chapter.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

I am a very lucky man. I am living my life with my hobby as my profession.

I'm a lucky guy. I don't take for granted, for one minute, what I do.

You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.

The way I look at the world, if you can't find a way to get something good out of the experience, then you have lived an unhappy life. All the actors I have worked with, superstars or otherwise, I have enjoyed.

I simply have a marvellous life, a very lucky life.

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

I ask myself if I deserve what I have. What I have today is way more than I ever bargained for.

In the end, one has to feel lucky that things fell out O.K. I've felt that all the years I've been writing plays.

I've had a lot more good luck than bad, and I've made a lot more good pictures than bad ones, and I'm pretty happy with what I have. I don't walk around regretting too many things.

I've been really fortunate to work with a lot of women.

I've been very fortunate to be part of projects that are really big and broad.

I just think that I was very fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with some very fine filmmakers in the industry. I worked with some wonderful people on some really interesting projects. So I consider myself very fortunate.

I don't regret the way I approached things, because otherwise I wouldn't have achieved what I did, but when I look back, I could have enjoyed things more.