Quotes About Fortune

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.

I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.

It's a lot of luck and being in the right place at the right time, that's what I think. Obviously you need to be noticed by people to be given the opportunities, and I think you do have to work hard.

"The harder you work, the luckier you get" is true in all things.

I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.

I've been really lucky as far as the caliber of musicians I've been able to work with each time.

I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films.

Luck is buying a lottery ticket along with your Yoo-hoo and striking it rich. Nothing about my life is lucky- it is all about hard work, it is all uphill struggle.

Over the course of my career, I've had the great fortune of working with some incredible filmmakers who have protected me and inspired me and taught me what an honor it is to work in film.

I've been lucky. The critics never went out of their way to single me out for doing bad work.

It's basically the best job in the world. If you're fortunate enough - and I consider myself fortunate - you get to work with your friends and you get to work on projects that interest you.

I'm really very lucky. I get to do an awful lot. I've been able to make an incredibly wide range of movies and work with an incredible array of people.

I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.

When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years.

I worked hard, but I was lucky the right people happened to see my work.

Luck is not scalable. Luck is not a national strategy.

There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.

With a modest amount of looks and talent, and more than a modicum of serendipity, I've managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into 50 years of good fortune.

Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.

I am incredibly lucky to be alive because one in three people who have strokes don't make it.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

I've been really fortunate that I've worked with a lot of strong women who are also mothers.

But I believe in destiny and strongly feel that certain things are meant to happen and so they will happen.

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