Michael Vartan Quotes

It kind of pays off to try your best at every audition; you never know what can happen. You can get a hundred nos, but if you just get one yes, it can change your life.

I always said the whole time all I was waiting for was an opportunity and a chance to get my foot in the door.

You never know when the break is going to come, so you have to keep plugging away.

Til I am getting my choice of work, I will keep working.

It's a game that I love and I want to continue to play. I know that I'll have a job somewhere. You've just got to go out there and put your best foot forward.

One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you.

Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.

You need an immense amount of luck and perseverance to even be on the playing field for success on a grand scale.

You just have to be persistent. I think that's one of the biggest things about the model industry and this career is being persistent and believing in yourself and also being ready when the timing is right. So much of it is about timing and luck, so to be ready when you get the opportunity.

No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Many people may say that luck is important, but I think you create your own luck by working hard to ensure you don't miss opportunities.

So, it takes a lot of chance and luck. I mean I was lucky enough to get in the program where people with the same skills never made it to the program. So keep trying.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

I would say one must just keep working hard and not lose faith. You don't know when destiny is going to come your way, what opportunity comes your way.

My making it is a combination of grinding, grinding, grinding and being lucky enough to finally get a shot.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible.

I got my agents right out of school, and I booked my first commercial right away. It was always enough to not quit and do something else.

Jack Nicholson didn't get anything until he was in his thirties. You have to persevere and put yourself in positions, and sooner or later, you will break through.

I'm a great believer that if you knock on enough doors and stay at the level maybe an opportunity comes.

It took me 11 years to get a shot at the WWE championship; not just to win it, but just to get a shot, but luckily I was able to capitalize on that and become WWE champion, but if I had quit I wouldn't have been in that position.

A combination of tenacity and luck brought me here today.

If you don't meet luck halfway with really hard work, luck won't get you all the way there.