Christian Slater Quotes

I've been very fortunate with the scripts I've had and the people I worked with.

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

We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience.

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

Ever since the first 'American Pie,' I've always been happy to just have an opportunity, I just didn't think it was going to be with comedies. Now I really like it.

You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

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.

It felt like a series of coincidences and luck that I ended up getting the part in 'Trainspotting,' but it's been an incredible journey since then. Every now and then, I sit and really think about it, and it blows my mind. I have to stop because I don't want my brain to implode.

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've been very lucky that I've interviewed so many different people.

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

If you look at the actual movies that I've done, the whole struggle is to get to that point, so it's not something that you just have so easy . . . But it's okay. It doesn't bother me. I've done okay so far.

I would never have changed anything in the past. I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted 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 feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.

I haven't really ever had to audition for anything.

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

I've been a very lucky actor.

You cannot be an actor like I am and not have been in some of the worst movies like I have. But I stand before you deeply honored, mighty grateful and just plain gobsmacked.

I see film roles as lovely presents that come along now and again. I feel really lucky and say thank you very much. And if they fly me to L.A., I think, 'God, I must really be doing well.' I've worked with De Niro and Brando and Pacino, and that's made me feel very lucky. But the films have never meant a lot to me.

Hollywood has treated me well.

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

Being able to act for a living is a blessing. I have a great theater company that's almost 40 years old.

I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.