I do not like to talk about luck.
A film like ‘Good Night And Good Luck,’ you make that for $7 million because you know it’s a black-and-white film, and it’s not an easy sell. If you make it for $7 million, then everybody can have a chance to make a little bit of money, and you get to make the film you want to make.
Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.
There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.
‘Jurassic Park’ isn’t about the bad luck of three people who keep getting thrown into the same situation.
I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.
I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it’s the only career in the world that you can’t choose for yourself – you have to be chosen.
The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
Luck favors the brave.
Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.
In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.
I’ve had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn’t.
I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.
If you can’t think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you’ve finished the three pages, don’t write it; it’ll be that much easier to get going next day.
Some degree of inequality in income and wealth, of course, would occur even with completely equal opportunity because variations in effort, skill, and luck will produce variations in outcomes.
It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation of open borders; a rich, deep, multi-layered, promiscuous universe, infused with Latin, German, French, Greek, Arabic and countless other tongues.
After working for a whole year without a break, I made Rs 80,000, and took a loan of 50,000 from my parents. I bought a car, and as luck would have it, it got stolen.
I’ve had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.
The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one’s biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.
The good ones push their luck to the limit – like Laurence Oliver. As actor and director, he will go just as far as he can.
A combination of tenacity and luck brought me here today.
A luck shot is one of those guys who has no form.
I don’t believe in luck.
Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.
I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.
I don’t have any particular recipe. It is the reason why doing research is challenging as well as attractive. It is like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck, you might find a way out.
It was a stroke of luck that there were about four to six leaders in power in the mid-’80s who really trusted one another and could really make things happen.
Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.
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.
Going through war and living is a very important process. You realize how vulnerable you are and how lucky you are to be in the right place at the right time. As a matter of fact, I have a history of luck.
Mentoring is the last refuge of the older artist. With luck, disciples will keep one’s books in print, one’s reputation alive.
Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.
I’ve had a lot more good luck than bad, and I’ve made a lot more good pictures than bad ones, and I’m pretty happy with what I have. I don’t walk around regretting too many things.
You can be good at comedy, which means you’ll be given spots, but beyond that it is luck that pushes you to the next level. There are loads of brilliant comedians who haven’t had the breaks, and plenty of average comedians who have.
Art depends on luck and talent.
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.
I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.
There’s more to life than passing exams, and paper qualifications can only take you so far. A lot depends on luck, and on being in the right place at the right time, which was certainly true in my case.
An actor is always looking for something. When your luck improves, trends change, you get one of those roles that do very well, sometimes even your worst work becomes a super success. So one can never predict what will happen tomorrow.
Justin Lin, the writer and director of the teenage-wasteland drama ‘Better Luck Tomorrow,’ a shrewdly tense piece of storytelling, recognizes that sometimes it’s good for a filmmaker to stir up trouble.
Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It’s not really anything; it’s just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.
When I was a child in England before the war, Christmas pudding always contained at least one shiny new sixpence, and it was considered a sign of great good luck for the new year to find one in your helping of the pudding.
When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or female. Also, I was a great admirer of E.B. White, so I may have thought that it would bring me luck to submit my first manuscript as ‘E.L.’ But if I were starting out today, I would use my first name.
I dread my trial at the pearly gates – knowing my luck, I’ll be hot on the heels of a blameless nun who will be ushered straight to a luscious cloud with prime sea views.
The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.
I am incredibly lucky. I worked hard for my luck as well. I have made choices to do things because I wanted them to do them, not because they were the right thing to do.
I always look at it this way: You try to create your own luck.
I’ve had an unbelievable life. I’ve been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I’m from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a ditch, I always think, ‘That’s real work.’
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
One reason I chose gunpowder is that I had the good luck in my environment to be exposed to gunpowder. The other reason is I was always looking for a visual language that goes beyond the boundary of nations, and so I found gunpowder.
It’s a very competitive industry, and so much of it does come down to luck, so I feel very blessed that I’ve been given the opportunities that I have, and I guess that’s what fuels me – the fight to keep going.
I think I would make a much better president than Ted Cruz, and with a little luck maybe I’ll get more votes, but I’m not counting on it.
I always believed in my ability. I just had to work hard and be patient and, yeah, at times it didn’t look likely. You need a wee stroke of luck but every chance I’ve been given, I’ve taken.
There were people I know that got upset that I kissed people; I kissed them for luck and love, that’s all. That’s what my mother did to me. There were people upset that I would embrace or hug someone of another color.
Yes, I’ve had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent.
At 17, I realized that it’s going to be a tough decision to make, but I had the clarity of thought to walk out of cricket and try my luck in acting.
Every song I’ve written is luck, I think; it’s luck – ‘How did that just happen?’
I don’t believe in luck.
I’m an actor who works, and a lot of this is luck for me, that I get to be a part of really great shows that have these cult followings.
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.
