Peter Scolari Quotes

Sometimes all you need is a big leap of faith.

Sometimes you have to take a risk if you want great things to happen.

It's important to take leaps of faith.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

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

Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

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

In life you need to take a risk.

I lack confidence, but I've been so lucky the way jobs have come to me, and I'm so grateful for them. I know how many brilliant actors there are out there who aren't getting the chances. While the work is there, I will grab it with both hands. It could all end tomorrow. You never know what's around the corner.

Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved it, and I was just like, 'I think there's something else out there for me and I just have to go for it.'

It is only your passion which takes you forward. So it is my gyaan to all budding singers that keep faith in your passion and prepare yourself, because you will get that opportunity sooner or later, and if you can prove yourself, people will line up for you.

To win you have to risk loss.

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

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.

One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

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.

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.

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.

It takes one person to give you a big chance.

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.

Luck is when opportunity meets preparation.