Quotes About Luck

In this business, I don't know how you can have a plan or how you can orchestrate anything. But I've been lucky with my choices. I'm very strong-willed, so I've been able to stick with it. I'm lucky there.

In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are - about luck and identity and how the idea struck them.

Obviously I struck gold with 'Deadwood.' No pun intended.

There's always a risk that something goes wrong, like a structural failure. But you have confidence in the whole system and the measures that have gone into place to minimize the risk. Sometimes you land when your knees are clanking together and you say you're lucky to be alive. But you are - and you move on.

We're very lucky in England: everything's very structured. But in India you have to deal with chaos, and I think that helps dealing with expectation.

I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.

I've always felt very blessed and lucky in the world, and I have great compassion for people who struggle to get through the day.

Don't leave your job without getting an acting offer. Very few people in the industry are lucky to get a film without much struggle and be successful.

I did the whole struggling actor thing and lucked into being in the right place at the right time and getting involved in the first 'High School Musical.'

Johnny Knoxville went from struggling to pay his rent to being on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' in the course of, like, a month.

For me, I was really lucky to go to a city like Chicago where the team was struggling at the time, and I was able to go in and play right away.

There's no specific reason for it, sometimes results just go against you and your opponents play too well.

You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.

As a leader, you don't get too high on the highs or let the bumps balance down. Every leader over time has probably equal amount of good luck or bad luck - or, you could argue, has good opportunities or challenges.

I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.

There is this idea of a perfect dance body - which I don't have. I'm lucky that I'm not the exact opposite of the ideal, but I don't have amazing feet, perfect hyperextension, or really flexible legs.

History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism.

We all should be so lucky to be as optimistic as SpongeBob.

For people like me, who appreciate the love and respect you get from the fans in Japan, there was no reason for me to turn my head to the other side and go try my options and luck in the UFC.

I have a lot of interests. I daydreamed about various career options growing up; the one I'm in is the first one that worked out, and I love it, so I feel very lucky.

But every crew that makes it to orbit is lucky. Spaceflight's not easy.

You just do the roles that you want to do and that you're lucky enough to get cast in, and then eventually you have that career. I feel like you can't control it; it just happens organically.

Luckily, I have my husband, who is Mr. Organized. Because I don't have that part of Martha Stewart in my body.

I'm trying to focus on original material. That is what I've had my luck with.