The Great Khali Quotes

I'm one of those fortunate actors who gets to work pretty much every day. I've had a run of good fortune and work with some terrific people who have hired me.

The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.

I hope I get the chance to keep acting in great projects.

Like any other actor, I want to be part of good projects.

I haven't really auditioned much in my career. I've been lucky in terms of the feature work; it's mostly been people that have been fans of mine that have called and said "We have this part, do you want to do it?" That kind of thing. And that's sort of still the way it is right now - I don't really go after features too much.

Yes, I've had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent.

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

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

I didn't set out wanting to be an actress. That's not what I did. I didn't go to class striving to become an actress. I just basically - honestly, I didn't have anything else going.

I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?

In the early days, I just got lucky. I would audition for everything and just happen to land in something pretty respectable, like 'Freaks and Geeks,' my first job, which was a complete fluke.

But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

For me, acting was something I fell into.

You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.

It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

I've been blessed with some lovely scripts and a character that people could truly identify with. It's one of those surprises in life that makes you think, 'God was smiling on me that particular day.

The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

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.

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

I think acting is something that came natural.

I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.