Quotes About Luck

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

In every sport you need a break and England seem to be the only cricket country which doesn't get one.

I've been very lucky as an actor. I have worked all the time. Some shows I do, they get cancelled. Some, they're critically acclaimed, and then they get cancelled. And some, I'm in the last season of this or that. But I can't complain about my career.

Our crowds seem to keep growing whether we put out a record or not, so I feel very lucky to have that support.

I'm lucky because my likeability is not crucial to my bankability.

I'm so lucky. I could be sitting at home crumbling, but I'm not.

The thing is that I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.

I'm an actor who works, and a lot of this is luck for me, that I get to be a part of really great shows that have these cult followings.

You can get lucky in the cups, but you don't get lucky over a 38-game season.

If you're down, it's curse; if you're up, it's a blessing.

I always say this - As an actor, we're lucky to get a job. Then we're lucky that anybody gives a damn to watch the thing that we're in.

You know, I always say this - As an actor, we're lucky to get a job. Then we're lucky that anybody gives a damn to watch the thing that we're in.

We bring our preparation to the table, and opportunity may present itself, and if you are well prepared, you can seize opportunity and then maybe something good happens, and you call that luck.

I try not to be superstitious, but, you know, we never put any shoes on the table. That's totally against the law in our house. And I always salute when I see one magpie.

I was lucky enough to take a chance on Arsenal.

My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.

I really tried to take advantage of my 15 minutes of fame. And I've gotten lucky - those 15 minutes have become several years.

I don't believe in getting lucky, I never have - luck is actually being ready to take advantage of an opportunity when it arises because you have the skill set you need and the drive and determination to do it.

It is easy when you are successful to think that you did it all by yourself and to forget that you didn't. You got here because a lot of things broke your way. You were lucky enough to be born into a family that could afford to take care of you well.

I'm a lucky guy. I don't take for granted, for one minute, what I do.

People say you make your own luck; I don't think that's the case, but maybe you contribute to your luck by recognizing it and taking advantage of it.

If I had to give odds, I would say 30 percent of whatever good fortune I've had in this business has been luck, and 50 percent has been casting - so that's 80 percent right there. And 20 percent is just working really hard and taking risks.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.