I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.
~By Monica Lewinsky ~
Basically, though, I'm just lucky to love what I do for a living.
~By John Goodman ~
If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.
~By Luis Bunuel ~
O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.
~By Lewis J. Bates ~
Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if we're lucky, it lasts... if not, then it's in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked and hopefully that some others might also like, whether for a minute, a week, a month, a year.
~By Tom Glazer ~
I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.
~By Pierre Trudeau ~
I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it.
~By Charlie Haden ~
I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky.
~By Candice Bergen ~
I have been very lucky to find something I am good at and can make money at... Playing with Bruce was the embodiment of everything that a little kid could dream about.
~By Max Weinberg ~
Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great.
~By Jordana Brewster ~
I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.
~By Steve Waugh ~
I like that totally mixed up kind of eclectic group of personal props and bits of costume and I think the fun of doing that is where I was very lucky with Doctor Who.
~By Lalla Ward ~
The one time I was an actor, it happened to be in a globally dominant juggernaut. That was lucky.
~By Sarah Vowell ~
But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.
~By Norman Wisdom ~
I've been very lucky in my life.
~By Joe Gold ~
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
~By Anne Tyler ~
I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but I've been lucky to have visited most of them before, because I've done a tremendous amount of travel.
~By Phil Keoghan ~
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
~By Ellen Key ~
I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
~By Natasha Henstridge ~
I'm not a pretty boy who came to town and burst out of the gate, which is a good thing, because if I was, I probably wouldn't have been good enough then. I probably wouldn't have lasted. So I was very lucky not to be pretty.
~By Jeremy Piven ~
I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.
~By Noel Gallagher ~
I've been lucky. I've had this history of having an appeal to more than one type of audience.
~By Juice Newton ~
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
~By John Irving ~
I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter... were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky.
~By Rod Taylor ~
I do have a lucky pair of underwear.
~By Brendan Fehr ~
I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.
~By Colin Firth ~
I'm lucky if I find one movie a year that's worth doing, and when I do find one, it usually only takes 20-30 days to shoot.
~By Kevin Spacey ~
I'd rather be lucky than good.
~By Lefty Gomez ~
I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.
~By Salma Hayek ~
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
~By Samuel Goldwyn ~
If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character.
~By William Hurt ~
I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky.
~By Ian Hart ~
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
~By Channing Pollock ~
I just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it's great, I love it.
~By Faith Ringgold ~
Art depends on luck and talent.
~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.
~By Whoopi Goldberg ~
I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.
~By Robert Sheckley ~
That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front.
~By Laurence Housman ~
Ninety-seven is my lucky number.
~By Antonia Fraser ~
I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I liked best: debuts, great theatres, but above all, inner and deep satisfaction.
~By Jose Carreras ~
I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.
~By Jeanne Calment ~
I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.
~By Suzy Parker ~
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
~By Maya Angelou ~
I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.
~By Michelle Hunziker ~
If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care.
~By Brigitte Bardot ~
Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.
~By Virginia Graham ~
I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky, but there wasn't any gum under any of them.
~By Emo Philips ~
You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.
~By Jimmy Dean ~
I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.
~By Haile Gebrselassie ~
I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
~By Kate Smith ~
I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them.
~By Emo Philips ~
The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
~By Patricia Clarkson ~
I was extremely lucky. I had some huge crashes and yet I am still here, thanks to God.
~By Emerson Fittipaldi ~
I'm lucky not to have a nine-to-five job.
~By Ruby Wax ~
We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it's real. You are what you feel.
~By Tim Rice ~
I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.
~By Dennis Quaid ~
I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage.
~By Lynn Johnston ~
I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.
~By Jane Birkin ~
Everything in life is luck.
~By Donald Trump ~
I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.
~By Wally Schirra ~
Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there's also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign.
~By David Zucker ~
We're quite lucky that we've got political freedoms. We should be using them.
~By Mark Thomas ~
I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of the fact that when I was in art school, I had no money whatsoever.
~By Martin Mull ~
I feel lucky, happy and philosophical about it all.
~By Greta Scacchi ~
The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
~By Joyce Carol Oates ~
I'm not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life.
~By Marla Maples ~
Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.
~By Billy Bragg ~
Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.
~By Jerry Reed ~
If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
~By Abraham Polonsky ~
The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
~By Robertson Davies ~
I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.
~By Norman Parkinson ~
Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.
~By Barbara Amiel ~
There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.
~By Brent Spiner ~
I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.
~By Lyle Lovett ~
The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!
~By Jay Z ~
Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
I believe that we were very, very lucky that it went that way.
~By Giovanni Agnelli ~
Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation.
~By Martha Gellhorn ~
I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with.
~By Sara Paretsky ~
Luck is the residue of design.
~By Branch Rickey ~
Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
~By Euripedes ~
Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it.
~By Galen Rowell ~
With a little bit of luck, you'll never work!
~By Alan Jay Lerner ~
I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.
~By David Selby ~
I don't carry lucky charms, but I believe in those things.
~By Christopher Walken ~
I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.
~By Bill Cosby ~
It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
~By Diana Wynne Jones ~
One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.
~By Carl Zuckmayer ~
I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.
~By Jane Fonda ~
I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.
~By Zinedine Zidane ~
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
~By Jean Cocteau ~
I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at a time that we needed to take a long look at each other and see how similar we were.
~By Lena Horne ~
I think we all appreciate it now just how lucky we are to be in a band like Judas Priest.
~By Glenn Tipton ~
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