Quotes About Luck

When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

You've lost an arm, Alessio! By the mercy of the Emperor, you're lucky not losing your life as well! I haven't lost my arm, brother! It's right over there! I'm still in this! I'm fine!

I hope you're as lucky as I am. The world needs inventors--great ones. You can be one. If you love what you do and are willing to do what it really takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.

Decision making brings together many of the finest traits of contrarian leadership--thinking gray, thinking free, artful listening, delegating authority while retaining ultimate responsibility,artful procrastination, ignoring sunk costs, taking luck into account, and listening to one's inner voice. Weaving these traits together is an art itself. When it is done well, the result is a thing of beauty and a powerful tool for effective leadership.

One man's mistake is another man's opportunity.

We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt.

'CSI' was an amazing experience, which, looking back, I was very lucky to get. They shoot an entire episode in eight days, so everything has to be totally slick and professional.

My life has been a series of slightly happy accidents.

The music world is a big world, and chances that you're going to happen to know somebody are slim. Pomplamoose really just got lucky in that we got a connection at iTunes.

I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

I'm not a poker player; I play slot machines.

I might put a couple of quarters in a slot machine, but I don't know how to play roulette.

The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.

I was on a cruise with my grandma when I was a kid. I remember winning $10 on the slot machine.

Script comes first, then the actors, then you gotta be lucky enough to get the right time slot. Then people have to watch.

When you have fast cars and bad luck, it's a lot easier to handle than having slow cars and bad luck.

I've been on the side of it where you have bad luck and slow cars.

I went to what can only be described as a slum school in Salford - rough and full of trainee punks - but I was very lucky in that I had one inspiring teacher, John Malone, who gave the whole class an interest in romantic poetry.

I kind of got really lucky a couple of years ago: I got to do a part in 'The Descendants,' in Alexander Payne's movie. I just had a small part, but I got to do a few scenes with my best friend George Clooney.

I'm a kid who grew up in a small town and started acting when he was seven for no reason and got lucky. Sometimes it can be a little overwhelming. I feel like some people, especially child stars, act out because they don't know how to handle the pressure.

I had gone from a small town in the eastern corner of India to San Francisco, and I was very lucky to get that.

I felt really lucky that 'Hairstyles Of The Damned' and 'The Boy Detective Fails' were both bestsellers, and I thought that donating the money from 'Demons' was a good way to respond to that. My favorite artists are the ones that are willing to experiment, even if it means a smaller audience.

I'm lucky that I get to do the bigger movies and the smaller movies.