Actor's Luck Quotes

To be an actor takes a lot of courage, but the way I did it takes less courage. I was very lucky.

I'm an actor who works, and a lot of this is luck for me, that I get to be a part of really great shows that have these cult followings.

I was a terrible actor. But John Hughes liked me, and he encouraged me. I made him laugh, I guess is the bottom line, and then he gave me that part in Ferris Bueller's Day Off as the flower man. It's just a nothing part in one sense, but it's such an iconic movie that people will ask me from time to time, "Are you in Ferris Bueller's Day Off?" "Yeah."

One of the fun things as an actor is to really spread your wings as wide as possible and do a variety of roles. I've been really lucky in that sense, I think.

I am a lucky regional theater actor who happened to get a good role.

If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character.

I'm just a very fortunate actor who has not been typecast.

I've always received a lot of support from my family, particularly for my pursuits as an actor. I'm very lucky.

Everybody wants to have their 'Breaking Bad.' It went to Bryan Cranston. It couldn't have happened to a better guy or a better actor.

I have been quite lucky as an actor to have managed to play different kinds of roles.

I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater.

I get cast a lot of times in movies with nice people for some reason - because I have a nice face or something.

I'm lucky that I've worked with so many different directors with very different styles and with a lot of different actors.

Getting on a popular, long-running show like 'Happy Days' is the actor's equivalent of winning the lottery.

Joss Whedon and all the writers of 'Iron Man' and 'Thor' found a way to keep Coulson saying something that keeps you guessing. I'm really lucky because a lot of people play agents and don't get nearly as much fun stuff to do.

As an actor, you very rarely have the experience of picking up a script and getting a few pages into it and realizing that what you're holding in your hands is not just a role on a TV show, but it's one of those special parts that comes along, once or twice in a career. If you're lucky, you get an opportunity to do something really memorable and to be part of one of those rare shows that passes into that special category.