Lucky famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
-- Abigail Breslin -
If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
-- Abraham Polonsky -
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
-- Abraham Verghese -
I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I'm lucky enough to be asked or invited to the party, if you will. I hope I can bring some laughs and grimaces to the fans.
-- Adam Baldwin -
Thankfully, I'm lucky enough to be able to eat ice cream. I've got to have my cookies and cream! But I work out a lot, so I burn a lot of calories.
-- Adrian Peterson -
She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.
-- Agatha Christie -
The things that stress me out haven't changed. But I don't wanna lose anything. So I thought that at least I would change. I'm lucky...that I'm afraid of losing something.
-- Ai Yazawa -
I’m lucky that I’m afraid of losing something
-- Ai Yazawa -
People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
-- Al Franken -
I feel like everyone who goes to The University of Texas is blessed and lucky to be there because they're getting a chance to be as good as they can be.
-- Alan Bean -
And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.
-- Alan Blinder -
I am a very lucky person, and the harder I work, the luckier I seem to be.
-- Alan MacDiarmid -
Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.
-- Alan Rickman -
I'm lucky and I appreciate that. I love every minute of every day.
-- Alan Shearer -
Writers are lucky. Whatever the mood, no matter the longing, the writer can use his words to connect himself to any world he wishes to visit.
-- Alan Zweibel -
In fashion we're lucky, we make dreams come true.
-- Alber Elbaz -
Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.
-- Alec Guinness -
I have been lucky enough to work with the world's best designers and top stylists - who have been my mentors.
-- Alessandra Ambrosio -
I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything.
-- Alex Rodriguez -
If you're lucky enough to use something you see in a dream, it is purely original. It's not in the world - it's in your head. I think that is amazing.
-- Alexander McQueen -
You're not actually being a good actor all the time. But people refer to me as a good actor because they read it someplace, not because they've made up their own mind. So I'm very lucky!
-- Alexander Siddig -
Try to imagine where we'd be without you, darlin', and then maybe you'll see just how lucky we got.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
If, by some miracle, you're lucky enough to meet the One, whatever you do, don't let them go. Because you don't get another shot at it. Soulmates aren't like buses; there's not going to be another one along in a minute. That's why they're called 'The One'.
-- Alexandra Potter -
Some of you may remember me as the 'Doritos Girl' from that Super Bowl commercial a while back, but I've been lucky enough to have gotten a few more credits under my belt since then!
-- Ali Landry -
I feel really lucky that, in my career, I've gotten a chance to explore a lot of different genres and kinds of films.
-- Ali Larter -
Lucky for me, as old as I am, I can still change.
-- Alice Neel -
I am lucky enough to have Aaron Sorkin write what I have to say.
-- Allison Janney -
'Tell Suzie she's a lucky cat.' Have sexier words ever been spoken?
-- Ally Carter -
Life is not just one thing; life is a lot of things, and I think Ive been lucky to do that.
-- Ally Walker -
I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.
-- Amanda Burton -
Every person is so different and I dont think there is an exact match for every person. If you meet someone and they have 20 of the 25 things you want in a person, then youre pretty lucky.
-- Amanda Bynes -
I really enjoy acting, and whether it's TV or films, I feel lucky to be doing it at all. In the end, I'd love to do films, but I'm not going to work just to do work. I only want to do something that I feel right about.
-- Amanda Bynes -
I'm in the lucky position financially where I don't have to do things I don't want to do.
-- Amanda Holden -
You know, I've kind of been lucky enough to always work with established actors or big names or people that are really popular or infamous for doing what they do and doing it well, I guess.
-- Amber Heard -
I'm lucky that I haven't been left out in the cold like Mumta Kulkarni or Meghna Kothari.
-- Ameesha Patel -
I was just so lucky with 'Real Women Have Curves.' At that point, I would have done an insurance commercial. I would have done anything.
-- America Ferrera -
I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films and different genres with different challenges.
-- Amy Adams -
I'm lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.
-- Amy Winehouse -
You're the luckiest person in the entire world if you know what you really want to do, which I was lucky enough to know when I was very young. And you're the luckiest person in the world if you can then make a living out of it.
-- Andrew Lloyd Webber -
If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask isn't it? I think I don't really think too much about it. I am a bit shy socially, yeah, I admit that.
-- Andrew Lloyd Webber -
I've been lucky enough to be around some great coaches, all the way from Pop Warner to now.
-- Andrew Luck -
I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.
-- Andy Rooney -
Not many people in this world are as lucky as I've been. ... All this time I've been paid to say what is on my mind on television. You don't get any luckier in life than that.
-- Andy Rooney -
Each and every one of us who is still lucky enough to have our parents has a duty to them. We do owe them.
-- Ann Jillian -
I just wanted to let you know that I feel very lucky to have you in my life.
-- Ann Lynn -
I was one of those lucky people with only one talent. It is harder for people with many talents to decide what to do.
-- Anna Chancellor -
I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
-- Anne Bancroft -
I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there werent too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.
-- Anne Beatts -
I've honestly been really lucky. My only jobs have been babysitting and acting.
-- Anne Hathaway -
No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.
-- Anne Michaels -
I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.
-- Anthony Doerr -
I used to think...that I had to be careful with how much I lived. As if life was a pocketful of coins. You only got so much and you didn't want to spend it all in one place...But now I know that life is the one thing in the world that never runs out. I might run out of mine, and you might run out of yours, but the world will never run out of life. And we're all very lucky to be part of something like that.
-- Anthony Doerr -
If you're an alcoholic or a drug addict or something, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we're lucky we pull ourselves back. We all have that in us.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them.
-- Anton Corbijn -
I've been lucky to play characters that are really broad.
-- Anton Yelchin -
I feel lucky to be in whatever I'm in. I feel lucky to be working.
-- Anton Yelchin -
At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.
-- Antoni Tapies -
I am lucky, that is all. Lucky because there are a lot of people - producers, directors, people who buy tickets - who put confidence in me.
-- Antonio Banderas -
When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.
-- Armand Hammer -
I would like to say, however, that a man might be walking around lucky and not know it unless he tries.
-- Arnold Palmer -
I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.
-- Arthur Hailey -
Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
How shall I sum up my life? I think I’ve been particularly lucky.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.
-- August Strindberg -
There's a balance between what you want to give the world and what it needs. If you're lucky, your work is in the middle.
-- Austin Kleon -
It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen.
-- Ayrton Senna -
I would say that I've been lucky. Being blessed and not really ever giving up.
-- Babyface -
Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.
-- Barbara Brown Taylor -
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
I consider myself very lucky that I could live my life through all the ups and downs.
-- Bela Karolyi -
I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
-- Ben Elton -
You achieve because you're lucky to work with people who are very talented.
-- Ben Gazzara -
I'd never managed anyone before, so I don't have a lot of experience. But I'm lucky - I have a lot of team members who have a really honest relationship with me.
-- Ben Silbermann -
I feel as if I'm in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.
-- Ben Stein -
I've seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.
-- Benedict Cumberbatch -
All artists have runners, people that tell them what to do, business managers, lawyers, these - if they get the right ones, they're lucky, and if they get the wrong ones, they're unlucky.
-- Berry Gordy -
I was in the South of France, in Saint-Tropez and I met her when it was totally unexpected. I was very lucky because she was the most beautiful woman in the world at the time. I photographed her very quickly, she was not easy as a model, but her beauty transcended anything I had seen before.
-- Bert Stern -
My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.
-- Beth Henley -
Thinking about women who can't have their own baby, even the first baby, I'm really lucky.
-- Bethenny Frankel -
I'm quite lucky, because I've got a small, decorative concrete pig.
-- Bill Bailey -
I'm very lucky to work in so many different arenas of the entertainment industry and I do enjoy them all, but making music - original music - in the studio or live onstage is definitely my favorite thing to do.
-- Bill Mumy -
I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.
-- Bill Mumy -
I'm lucky that I get to play a wide variety of parts.
-- Bill Nighy -
It's more than usually possible that I won't do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language. I was lucky enough to be a part of it at one point in its life, and it's a timely thing to deliver it again in the modern world.
-- Bill Nighy -
I have never owned a computer. I am one of those weirdos. I've never needed a computer. I'm lucky that I have a job where I'm not required to use one.
-- Bill Nighy -
I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.
-- Bill Nighy -
I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar
-- Bill Sienkiewicz -
You might think you see a lucky man who made the grade.
-- Billy Squier -
Ironically, being a coach on 'The Voice' and spending time with those kids, Xenia and Dia especially, I learned a lot about myself. It reminded me how lucky I am that this happened for me, and it kind of lit the spark inside me again for my love of music.
-- Blake Shelton -
I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.
-- Blythe Danner -
The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?
-- Bob Brown -
Every jock gets up and tells the world how lucky he is. But I feel that I may be the luckiest one of all in terms of timing and being at the right place at the right moment-even though, for the last 30 years, I was told I was born 20 years too soon, for obvious reasons.
-- Bob Cousy