Luck Quotes

No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.

I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.

I had the luck of having an obedient body.

Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I've come out pretty well.

Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.

I don't believe in luck.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal!

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.

Sheer luck. I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.

I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.

You can't just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.

When you get as lucky as I got, you have to work as hard as possible to earn that luck.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Good luck needs no explanation.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Everything in life is luck.

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Luck is believing you're lucky.

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

Good luck is a residue of preparation.

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.

It'll be my luck that the worst candidate will pick up 'Fly Over States' as his election song. Then I'll be forever linked to that guy, whoever he is!

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.

Here's where I luck out: I'm really computer illiterate.

For an actor to have a role that they're recognized and remembered for over the years, it's unusual. It's very lucky if it happens once - and it's luck that it's happened to me a couple of times.

You know, in life there are only three or four fundamental decisions to make. The rest is just luck.

A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

I still have horrible luck with girls.

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

I'm amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I'm so lucky, though my mum always says, 'You make your own luck.'

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.

Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.

With luck on your side, you can do without brains.

I get to the theatre in plenty of time; I prepare my shoes in advance; I eat and drink the right things at the right time. The rest you have to leave to luck!

You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.

You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.

It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

Art depends on luck and talent.

I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time.

I've had the most incredible luck in my career.

You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.

I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.

I think luck falls on not just the brave but also the ones who believe they belong there.

Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.

People seem to like this image of me being all boho and hippy. It's either that or I'm down on my luck, I've got no money, the work's dried up.

No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.

I think the more avenues that open up when people want to publish, the better. Some of the authors that want to jump ship from the traditional houses and go on their own, you know what? Good luck. It's going to be a lot tougher than you think.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Hopefully it'll give us a bit of luck on the night, but I'm not really a superstitious person.

Luck has had a great deal to do with my career.

You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.