Quotes About Opportunity

There may be luck in getting a good job-but there's no luck in keeping it.

I think that's all just a bit of luck that I've gotten to do such different stuff. I don't know if it's a good thing to not do something, just 'cause it's too similar to what you've done.

Luck never gives; it lends.

To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles.

There's certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I've ended up.

Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.

Sometimes there's luck, When there is you stock up on it and wait for the other times

To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.

A lot of luck, and being prepared when the opportunity came. There are talented individuals out there who didn't get the break that I got. Or when the break came, they weren't ready for it.

Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

I think there is certainly luck and fate involved in any career of any kind. In show business, maybe it's even more true.

I've read a lot of scripts and I'm really luck to be able to play a woman who's funny and can be charming and has a mischievous side to her as well. I'm really lucky.

Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

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.

There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have.

There are far more good actors than there are jobs for them, so it's a big question of luck.

Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.

Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.

Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera.

Luck is created by the prepared.

Everything in my life was luck.

Luck does indeed favor the well prepared.

Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck.

I think luck is a big part of people who are successful in L.A.