"I've been really lucky. When I decided to go to LA I said I was going to quit modelling and just go and see how I do. In the first two weeks I got three movies. I was so excited I had all my furniture shipped out from New York"
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That tension is the subtext. In entertainment, confidence can be punished as arrogance, especially for models crossing into acting, a move often treated as unearned entitlement. So she reaches for the socially acceptable shield - gratitude - while still staking a claim to inevitability. The sentence structure does the work: decision, risk, reward. It is a miniature American myth, told in the casual voice of someone who expects the myth to be true.
The furniture detail is the smartest part. Shipping furniture is expensive, inconvenient, and irreversible; it is commitment made physical. It turns abstract success into a concrete image of a life being rerouted in real time, before the industry has time to change its mind. It also reveals a kind of accelerant psychology common to LA narratives: when the door cracks open, you sprint through and start decorating on the other side.
Context matters: late-90s/early-2000s crossover culture rewarded faces that already read as famous. Warren is selling the dream, but also inadvertently exposing its mechanics - momentum, perception, and the speed at which validation can become a moving truck.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Warren, Estella. (2026, January 15). I've been really lucky. When I decided to go to LA I said I was going to quit modelling and just go and see how I do. In the first two weeks I got three movies. I was so excited I had all my furniture shipped out from New York. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-been-really-lucky-when-i-decided-to-go-to-la-46673/
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Warren, Estella. "I've been really lucky. When I decided to go to LA I said I was going to quit modelling and just go and see how I do. In the first two weeks I got three movies. I was so excited I had all my furniture shipped out from New York." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-been-really-lucky-when-i-decided-to-go-to-la-46673/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I've been really lucky. When I decided to go to LA I said I was going to quit modelling and just go and see how I do. In the first two weeks I got three movies. I was so excited I had all my furniture shipped out from New York." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/ive-been-really-lucky-when-i-decided-to-go-to-la-46673/. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.



