Ron Eldard Quotes

There is always room for coincidence.

I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.

Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience.

The fact that I fell in love with Meghan so incredibly quickly was sort of confirmation to me that all the stars were aligned; everything was just perfect. It was this beautiful woman just sort of literally tripped and fell into my life; I fell into her life.

Who could have imagined that life would have taken such marvelous twists and turns or that I would often be so fortunate to be in the right place at the right time?

I kind of drifted into acting through a series of coincidences.

It was by accident I got into wrestling. Somebody didn't show up, and I just filled in.

I feel blessed. I never wanted to be an actor. It just happened all by chance and fate. I was studying to be a teacher.

This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.

I've been blessed with some lovely scripts and a character that people could truly identify with. It's one of those surprises in life that makes you think, 'God was smiling on me that particular day.

As usual, my timing is bizarrely good.

Good luck needs no explanation.

The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.

The only reason I'm an actor is that a lady pulled out of a parking space in front of a producer's office.

It's ridiculous. My life's been a series of happy accidents.

I had no idea In-N-Out was going to fall on my lap as soon as it did.

John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.

I feel like something magical is going to happen, and I feel like all the stars have finally lined up perfectly for Angie Stone.

Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. I thought, 'Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I auditioned for a soap!'

I was training in Gleason's Gym on 30th and 8th Avenue, where it was the Mecca of boxing, and a guy walked in who couldn't rub two quarters together and said, 'Did you ever think of being on TV?' And somehow I ended up in 'Taxi,' which is the craziest thing of all.

For me, modelling has been an advantage because if I hadn't been modelling, I would never have been spotted as an actress. I didn't have any intention of becoming an actress.

I went to a dentist for a toothache, and it turned out his kids were in an acting school. We talked about it, and I decided to enroll at the same school. I was 14. I guess you could say I just got lucky.

Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.

In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.

Well, a lot of successes come by mistake.