Quotes About Fortune

I have got a self-confidence that I have the ability but felt I was not being lucky and was an unlucky person.

There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones.

The Champions League is so difficult, It's like a lottery: sometimes you're just unlucky.

Two premature babies was not a genetic thing; we were just unlucky.

I don't think I'm an unlucky person.

I think I'm both lucky but also unlucky, because sometimes I miss so many matches.

I do lots of projects in film and TV. You have some that are lucky, and some that are unlucky.

I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on the other side, and it's his bad luck that he was born there and it's my good fortune that I was born here. It's all kind of illogical.

Even as an empiricist, I have to say that I believe in luck. I've seen it too many times in politics to let it pass by unnoticed.

In the two novels I have published, it was my fortune at different times, and from different persons, to hear the most unqualified censure long before it was possible for me to hear the voice of the public. But my temper was not altered, nor my courage subdued.

I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 million dollars from playing. It is unreal.

Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.

Something is guiding my career; I don't know what it is. When I look back at my career, I call myself the most lucky actor in the world. It is all I have ever done. I do master classes, and I tell people not to use me as an example. I do not know anyone like me - not to brag - it is just very unusual.

I had an unusual college experience because I traveled the world while going to school at the same time. Now, to look back, I was very lucky.

In my ministry, I've been fortunate to privately advise many national leaders, celebrities and people of unusual influence.

I was born in Singapore, and I lived there until I was 12. I had a very fortunate upbringing.

I've been very lucky - I don't come from a privileged upbringing.

I would describe myself as having a healthy income, but I sure wouldn't describe the son of a postmaster and an encyclopedia saleswoman as upper class, by any stretch of the imagination. I would describe myself as decidedly middle class. I think I'm extremely fortunate.

My journey has been beautiful, more than what I could ask for. Of course there have been ups and downs but I've been fortunate and grateful for this journey. It has taught me a lot, I've grown, become a better actor and a human being.

It would be ridiculous for me to say I am unlucky, but, like any other family and any other girl, I've had my ups and downs.

Every poker player has ups and downs because luck is also involved. When a great poker player smashes, he's making the right moves and making the right reads and he's getting lucky.

I can't watch my first audition because it makes me too upset. I just think it is really sad. I look at myself and don't recognize myself. I do think fame and fortune changes people.

I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.

Seize opportunity by the beard for it is bald behind.