Mel Ott Quotes

As usual, my timing is bizarrely good.

You never know what's going to happen sometimes, or what you think's going to happen never happens, or when you least expect it, the Santana record comes along and just blows up.

I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it isn't. And sometimes you pay no attention to something whatsoever, and God just makes it into everything.

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

I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.

Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

For me, the biggest successes I've ever had were the ones I never counted on. I never thought my first big record would be a hit. I thought it was an average song.

Every time you wanted to do something, you'd hope it would score. You'd keep trying and trying, and all of the sudden, something would come right out of left field, like 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.' No one had any idea about that one.

I never planned on a career in music at all, so I should say I'm very lucky.

It fell into my lap. I grew up doing dance classes. And one day, a film production company contacted my dance school looking for background dancers. I wasn't looking for it. It just happened. And I found myself on set. And that was that.

I knew I was going to be successful from day one. From day one. That's why it throws me whenever someone says it was such a fluke that I was successful.

I never would have thought that in a million years that this would have happened, being in WWE and being in a Muppet film. But for some stroke of luck I guess they both did and I'm loving both of them.

I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!

It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.

Singing pop music was not something I planned, but I managed to do it.

'Desperate Housewives' worked out beautifully. I went out for that before it began airing, and no one had any idea it was going to turn into what it did.

I had no clue on what I wanted to do when I was younger, so I was pretty lucky with this YouTube thing.

Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.

Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.

If he ever had a bright idea it would be beginner's luck.

They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.

When something works for you, all you can do is cross your fingers and hope that it will work for someone else.

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.