Quotes About Luck

I've been pretty lucky. Every single thing I've done has meant so much to me and has been like a stepping stone to something different.

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

Sharon Stone has made a fortune from her movies, so who says you can't get something for nothing?

I'm lucky: whatever I eat, I've never wavered from just under 14 stone.

It's kind of a lost art form, the musical, in a way, so when 'La La Land' came around, I couldn't believe my luck. I just felt like I needed someone to keep on pinching me 'cause not only was it a chance to make a musical but to work with Damien Chazelle, Emma Stone, and Ryan Gosling.

Sometimes you have to stop to think, regroup and regather yourself and realize how lucky you are to still be living and to still be breathing and still be able to even have a chance.

It is funny now, but in the beginning of my career, some of the films failed at the box office, and filmmakers stopped casting me, saying I am bringing bad luck to their film.

I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky, briefly, in the '90s, and it just so happened that those movies were the opportunities that came my way. Then it just kind of stopped.

When I go outside of L.A., no matter where it is, really anywhere I go, people will be stopping me or taking pictures or whatever it is. And it's great. It's amazing. I'm just lucky.

Luck is in every part of China. Many Chinese stores and restaurants have the word 'luck' in their names. The idea is that, just by using the word 'luck' in names of things, you can attract more of it. I think that's true in my life as well. You attract luck because you go after it.

A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.

I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.

It sounds strange to say, but someone's bad luck is sometimes the happiness of the other.

Sometimes being old is used as an insult, which is bizarre because, if you're lucky, that's literally going to happen to you. It's a strange thing to gloat about: being born recently.

I'm quite lucky in that at certain angles I look all right, and at others I don't look so good, which enables me to play some leading roles and some stranger, more 'character'-type parts. I wouldn't say I'm the conventional handsome Hollywood leading man.

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.

Tons of people deserve to be successful because they're supersmart and interesting and work hard, but they just haven't had the luck.

You must seize opportunities when they present themselves, not when they are convenient or obvious. The only way to cultivate your own luck is to be more flexible (you'll need to give up something for the right opportunity), humble (timing is out of your control), and gracious (when you see it, seize it!). Life's greatest opportunities run on their own schedule, not yours.

LA ESPERANZA NO ES UNA ESTRATEGIA. LA SUERTE NO ES UN FACTOR. EL MIEDO NO ES UNA OPCIÓN.

el cual depende a partes iguales de la elección y el azar.»

I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities. (Talon Karrde)

I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.

Life is beautiful and full of variety and adventure. But luck must be on your side.

Luck is stupid as a cow and blind as a bat.