There is no formula for success. All you need to do is put in your best and be blessed with some good luck as well.
There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans, and not all of them have brought the best of luck to NFL Films. We got robbed twice there, got food poisoning, and my hotel room was broken into on the day the Bears played the Patriots in January 1986.
I haven’t gotten jobs because I’m famous or I have a big Twitter feed – it’s primarily directors. People employ me because I’m right for the part. But then, everybody needs a bit of luck, being in the right place at the right time. You just gotta be in that place for that opportunity to come by.
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.
In dancing, you can work hard and improve and see the results. With acting, you can work hard, and it’s still luck of the draw.
Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that – whatever success they have, that same success – to their own core skills.
When COVID-19 first hit, we thought everyone could use a little luck and created a hoodie for a few friends with our signature good luck motif. We were blown away by the social media response and now the sweatshirts regularly sell out on our website.
There’s very few geniuses that come and revolutionize everything. For the rest of us that want to be artists and have something to say, it’s a lot of work and a lot of luck.
Sometimes luck is on your side, and everything works.
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
I’ve always thought of myself as being extremely lucky. The idea is to keep that luck going. Headlining the Stanley was a real kick. I think it’s the type of thing I could get used to.
There’s certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I’ve ended up.
Thank God there has been no recurrence of 9/11. It is not because of luck – it is because of mass sacrifice and effort.
I know I have been lucky in business, and I am keen now to spread goodwill to others, of course not forgetting that very often, you make your own luck by making use of every opportunity.
Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in behavioral biology that I wanted to solve and, in the process, made myself into a bird ecologist.
When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.
Lots of luck to Paige VanZant. I met her a few times. She’s very nice girl.
My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.
Unfortunately, when we had a No. 1 draft pick, there wasn’t an Andrew Luck out there. A lot of that’s pure luck.
There’s a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.
I don’t know the definition of a star; I am just an actor. I prefer doing hard work, as I feel luck can’t do much in absence of hard work. I am a lazy person – when I entered into this industry, I thought it was a cakewalk, but I have realised it needs a lot of patience and hard work.
When you look at a film like ‘The Ides of March’ or ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ even, those are really contained pictures.
I’ll wager there isn’t a human being on earth who doesn’t believe in luck, however rational they pretend to be in public life. In reality, most of human life is luck – and, of course, its darker, more prevalent opposite. One only has to live long enough to experience both.
One of the reasons I chose to come to Liverpool was because of the mentality of the club. It’s a working club and a working city. I don’t know why, but I feel like one of the people here. They recognise me and wish me luck, but in Spain, they surround you and you can’t do anything. I think they’re happy with me here.
I’ve been making arts programmes for almost 50 years, and every day, I can’t believe my luck.
I think you always need some luck when you score big runs.
Maybe this was my luck that I was in Munich the only one with a look like this, the only one with an image like this. But in the States, there is a lot of more competition.
Luck relies on chance, labor on character.
After I beat Rose and won the belt, I heard too many comments along the lines of ‘Oh, that was luck.’ You think that doesn’t get to you?
For me there is no such word as ‘luck’ in the dictionary.
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.
Luckily for me, Hereford restarted their youth team. I trained a few times with the first team before my first stroke of luck, when the club’s youth team coach Pete Beadle, someone who knew me well, became the first-team manager.
Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there’s a lot of luck involved in that, you’re playing a different character.
‘Hardware’ came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn’t had any luck getting them made.
There’s no trajectory to follow. Even if you were to say, ‘OK, I’m going to model my ascent based on this other person’s,’ luck and timing play such a big part that it’s really futile.
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
My mother used to play cards with King Farouk. He believed she brought good luck to him – she was his mascot.
I think that some actors who make it in Hollywood are very talented. There are some of my heroes, the Meryl Streeps of the world, a lot of people that I love their work but I think a lot of it is luck, looks, strategic alliances and relationships, your agent and a lot of business components.
I have always considered myself as a privileged person from a kind of elite among the lucky ones. So I think we should help all those who have not had the luck I have had, to use my fame to help.
Don’t ask me the secret to a good long-term relationship – I have no idea! Honestly, I think it’s just luck.
If you’ve been around as long as I have, watching the literary scene, then you know that who’s in and who’s out changes by the year. It’s really a very fluid situation that requires that the person who is having the good luck now isn’t having it a year or two from now.
I never had problems with injuries as a kid or in the youth team. My injuries started at Chelsea, when I broke my foot during a pre-season game. That was just pure bad luck, but after that, I had some muscular injuries, too, so I had to get to know my body better.
I started kinda late with wrestling in high school, and I wasn’t doing so well – I lost my first five matches in a row, and my little brother said ‘wear this chain for good luck… ‘ and told me it might intimidate some of my opponents. Sure enough, when I wore the chain I went all the way to the regional finals.
I think there’s an incredible luck or skill for a 45-year-old man to draw like a three-year-old.
In doing the screenplay for ‘Good Night, and Good Luck,’ the most important thing for me was to constantly go back to wherever the opposition would argue. So I had to keep reading all the books and articles about why McCarthy is such a good guy.
I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.
I’ve learned the truth in these sayings: ‘Luck is when opportunity meets preparation’ and ‘The right project will find you’.
It was a stroke of luck when I worked in ‘Agneepath.’ It was a great role, something different for me.
Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in ‘Transformers.’ I like to think that I’ve had some luck in building actors’ careers with my films.
I don’t think I really have any wisdom. Stay out of trouble. Good luck. Stay away from women because they will burn you, haha.
I hope Seth Rollins becomes the safest, best wrestler in the world. And I wish him all the luck in the world.
I never underestimate luck and working hard.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
When we signed Taylor Swift, people said, ‘You’re signing a 15-year-old female country artist? Good luck!’
I don’t attribute any ‘luck’ to ‘Bol Bachchan”s success. It was an entertaining commercial film which was bound to do well, and I guess I have the knack of picking up such universally appealing, fun masala movies which turn to be successful.
I’m a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.
By sheer luck, we did our first tour of America as a headlining act.
