As an actor, I’m always just so pumped when I get any job. To be a working actor takes a lot of luck. – Elden Henson
People often remark that I’m pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you’ve got to have talent and know how to use it. – Frank Sinatra
My experience I consider an accident in the Hollywood system. I don’t believe it should be a reference for a black film maker, or an example for any young film maker, because it’s purely luck. – Euzhan Palcy
Everything about it worked, and I don’t mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there’s also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign. – David Zucker
You can’t rely on luck. I’ve had some stages in my career where I’ve said we’re going to wing it, and we’ve always ended up in trouble. – George Thorogood
Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much. – Dana Spiotta
You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can’t do one of those three things, you ain’t going to get any money. – David Mamet
I’ve just had some bad luck. I’ve had every injury known to man. I understand how people think, ‘How can this be happening all the time to Gerry Cooney?’ But it did. – Gerry Cooney
Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests. – Nicolas Sarkozy
My first YA novel, not many people have read. It’s a fickle business. There’s a degree of timing and luck involved. – Gayle Forman
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. – Patty Duke
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. – Fergus Henderson
I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity. – Edith Pearlman
I can’t speak for them, of course, but I believe that most economists would accept the view that, while you sometimes can make a score by sheer luck, you can’t do it constantly, unless you’re willing to put the resources in. – Merton Miller
I’m an actor. I’m hired to play whatever it is they want me to play – if I’m lucky enough to be cast for the part – which seems to take a lot of luck these days. – Melanie Mayron
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. – Fred Saberhagen
Justin Lin, the writer and director of the teenage-wasteland drama ‘Better Luck Tomorrow,’ a shrewdly tense piece of storytelling, recognizes that sometimes it’s good for a filmmaker to stir up trouble. – Elvis Mitchell
One of the reasons I chose to come to Liverpool was because of the mentality of the club. It’s a working club and a working city. I don’t know why, but I feel like one of the people here. They recognise me and wish me luck, but in Spain, they surround you and you can’t do anything. I think they’re happy with me here. – Fernando Torres
Well, it is certainly not by choice at this time you don’t see or hear about me. This business is very unpredictable. A lot of it is luck and being in the right place at the right time. – Erin Moran
I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don’t know how. – Dennis Quaid
Why is it that if you hit a shot to within a tenth of an inch of the hole, it’s a great shot, but if it goes in, it’s luck? – David L. Wolper
Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself. – Peter Lindbergh