Quotes About Luck

No film ever ends up exactly as you would like it to, but with minor exceptions, THX came out pretty much as I had visualized it, thanks to some excellent assistance -- and a whole lot of luck.

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

I have a lucky perfume. I love beautiful smells, but I save one of my favorite perfumes to wear only when I feel like I need some extra luck.

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.

I needed to understand this random bad bit of luck as part of a bigger design. Otherwise I was suffering meaninglessly. This made the suffering a lot worse.

Just my luck,' sighed the endolg. 'Twenty million people in the Realm and I get locked up with a wuss.

I'd never yell, "Good luck!" at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it.

Perhaps just one more, Master Harry, for luck?

How do you become enlightened? I don't know: Luck, karma, skill, friends in high places, friends in low places.

Everything in my life was luck.

We [Elbow] have had some luck with media syncs in film and on TV. We'd love to do a soundtrack with a really cool director.

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.

Luck does indeed favor the well prepared.

I hated relying on luck. When it worked, it made me feel so damned eerie.

And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck.

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

I've always thought you've got to believe in luck to get it.

I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and happenstance.

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

I love surprises and coincidences. I love them even more when I don't pass them off as luck, but rather recognize them as a sign that my life's course is right on track.