Atom Egoyan Quotes

I'm a guy who's had great good fortune in his life. And everything has kind of gone in my direction.

I've gotten to work with some great people. I've been really lucky.

I sort of got lucky in that I was able to carve a niche for myself.

Peaky' is the luckiest project I've ever been involved with.

I don't think I could ever describe myself as unlucky because people would look at me, playing football for a living, and say: 'Are you winding me up?'

Sometimes in life, things just fall in to my lap. I'm very blessed that way.

I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.

Obviously, I've been very lucky in general in my career, but I feel that I've been very lucky in terms of having directors come along at the right times who have taken me to the next level of where I needed to be.

I think that I was lucky that I was 30 when I did 'Love Story', which came with this extravagant pop celebrity. I had already done 15 years of what I call 'real' work.' I was a waitress, chambermaid, and a photographer's assistant, so I knew that I was tremendously lucky as a novice actor to have that big hit.

I've just been lucky. I'd like to have more choices, and I'd like to have a leading part.

I have actually been very blessed in my career.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

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

I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out.

I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.

I've had the most incredible luck in my career.

I feel like I've gotten so lucky and gotten to do such cool things with such cool folks. It's really great. You definitely want that momentum to keep going, for sure.

I have led an exceptional life in some ways, yes. I mean, I've been very lucky. I seem to have had a gift for landing in the right place at the right time.

I look at my career and it's still hard for me to believe the way things turned out and how things happened. I've been so blessed.

Los Angeles has been good to me.

Everything that ever happened to me fell in my lap.

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.

My whole career - I have been really lucky.

I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.

I was very lucky - it wasn't a question of being wealthy; my father was just extremely lucky with the couple of jobs he got. So we got a chance to travel when nobody else could travel.