People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
~By Frank Sinatra ~
It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?'
~By Albert Finney ~
Hmm, limelight... No, I'm not Sienna Miller or Angelina Jolie. I'm very lucky and happy, but I still find it very difficult to get good scripts and good roles. It's really a jungle out there.
~By Eva Green ~
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.
~By Barbara Amiel ~
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 ~
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
~By Ernest Hemingway ~
I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.
~By Robert Fitzgerald ~
I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it.
~By Fernando Alonso ~
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 ~
When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn't have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track.
~By Buck Baker ~
Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.
~By William Feather ~
Everyone wants to pluck eyebrows. I thinned them out real thin once and it just didn't look like me.
~By Denise Richards ~
I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.
~By Jeremy London ~
There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.
~By Steve Irwin ~
To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
~By Walt Whitman ~
My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.
~By Beth Henley ~
Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.
~By John Thorn ~
But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theatre, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.
~By Eric Stoltz ~
I am a very lucky man. I am living my life with my hobby as my profession.
~By Jim Sullivan ~
I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.
~By Roger Angell ~
I would say that I've been lucky. Being blessed and not really ever giving up.
~By Kenneth Edmonds ~
In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career.
~By Edward Albert ~
As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.
~By Peter Snell ~
The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.
~By Hector Berlioz ~
And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.
~By Jacky Ickx ~
I simply have a marvellous life, a very lucky life.
~By Olivia Newton-John ~
Some other people are very lucky and always get in to the very best teams at the very best times and therefore go out and score lots of championship points and be in with a chance of the championship.
~By David Leslie ~
Luck is an art.
~By George Roy Hill ~
I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
~By Arthur Golden ~
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 was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid.
~By Sophia Bush ~
It's not that complicated. If you hear something and it makes you want to hear it again, that's the ticket. You have to be lucky enough to find geniuses, welcome them and get out of their way.
~By Jerry Moss ~
Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
~By Ovid ~
I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
~By Madeleine Peyroux ~
Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.
~By Richie Benaud ~
I feel lucky, happy and philosophical about it all.
~By Greta Scacchi ~
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 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 ~
The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was new to me but luckily, I've learned to ignore the comments. why do they even care about how I look?
~By Melanie Chisholm ~
I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.
~By Katharine Hepburn ~
I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players.
~By Ernie Harwell ~
Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.
~By Meryl Streep ~
I'm amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I'm so lucky, though my mum always says, "You make your own luck."
~By Orlando Bloom ~
I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.
~By Neil Diamond ~
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
~By Bret Harte ~
Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.
~By Thomas Perry ~
I do have a lucky pair of underwear.
~By Brendan Fehr ~
I may be plucky, but I am not stupid.
~By Pierre Salinger ~
I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others.
~By Laurell K. Hamilton ~
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 ~
The more I practice, the luckier I get.
~By Gene Sarazen ~
The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
~By W. C. Fields ~
Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.
~By Reggie Jackson ~
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 ~
Sheer luck. I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.
~By Suzy Parker ~
Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.
~By Timothy Zahn ~
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
~By Garrison Keillor ~
There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.
~By Blythe Danner ~
Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was happy again. He was a musician. I start to travel with him through Europe also and around the former Soviet Union.
~By Olga Korbut ~
I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
~By Charles Francis Richter ~
The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.
~By Bob Goodlatte ~
My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.
~By A. J. Foyt ~
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
~By E. B. White ~
Now, when we first started, I would be playing something good and then feel like I wasn't doing the right thing and launch into some idiotic cliche. Luckily for me, Bobby was patient.
~By Charlie Hunter ~
I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you're very lucky in life if you know what you want to do.
~By Andrew Lloyd Webber ~
Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.
~By V. S. Naipaul ~
I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.
~By Elvis Costello ~
I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.
~By Eugene Ormandy ~
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
~By Beverly Cleary ~
Luck is believing you're lucky.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
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 ~
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
~By Agatha Christie ~
I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got.
~By Philip Seymour Hoffman ~
Art depends on luck and talent.
~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera.
~By Robert Carlyle ~
It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo.
~By Alison Moyet ~
It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.
~By Clyde Tombaugh ~
I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
~By Natasha Henstridge ~
The lucky person passes for a genius.
~By Euripides ~
Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.
~By Malcolm Wilson ~
Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my career and aside from sitting in on a couple of classes, here and there, I basically just use my own instincts.
~By Nancy McKeon ~
I was also lucky to play for an owner, Bud Selig, who truly cared about his players. He'd call me into his office once in a while when he knew things weren't going so well. And it's funny. Every time I left there I always felt like something good was about to happen.
~By Robin Yount ~
Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.
~By Michael Korda ~
I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.
~By Dennis Quaid ~
After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.
~By Kyra Sedgwick ~
I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.
~By Bill Mumy ~
You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.
~By Barbara Bush ~
Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.
~By James Cash Penney ~
There's another girl who was going to play Hilary Faye and luckily she wound up not doing it.
~By Heather Matarazzo ~
I was lucky enough to meet the Material Girl twice.
~By Eric West ~
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 always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.
~By Lance Burton ~
Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.
~By Bill Brandt ~
Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be given the opportunities I've had.
~By Michael Patrick Jann ~
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
~By Iris Murdoch ~
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 ~
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