Michael Emerson Quotes

A good role comes along, and a good role is a good role.

I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.

I would say I was lucky that I got different kinds of roles.

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 think you have to be really lucky to pick the sort of roles you want to do.

Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.

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.

I am at a stage where I want to be known as a versatile actor.

Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!

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

If you have the opportunity as an actor to control your career in any way, then you've won the jackpot.

I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.

There are lots of actors out there who are hugely, hugely talented and haven't got the breaks I've had.

I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.

I had never dreamt I'd become an actress. It was destiny that put me in the right place at the right time and gave me the right opportunities.

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.

I started to book good television jobs in 2010. I started to get really close to exceptional jobs in 2011, and then I got 'Arrow' in 2012. I know how lucky I am because just getting the lead in a pilot doesn't guarantee that that pilot is going to turn into something great.

It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.

It's definitely an exciting time to be an actress.

I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky, briefly, in the '90s, and it just so happened that those movies were the opportunities that came my way. Then it just kind of stopped.

I hope I have quite a few great roles to come.

I never thought I could model, and I certainly never thought about acting. It's just something that happened to me.

Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.

I've been very fortunate to have had the opportunities to have the career I've had.

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.