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"A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I'm very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I've never been a sex symbol. I'm spared the embarrassment of acting young."
"Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it."
"You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice."
"I wish you way more than luck."
"Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone."
"As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out."
"Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young."
"According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame."
"I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence."
"Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel."
"I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could."
"I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!"
"When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers."
"Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in."
"I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not."
"I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side."
"I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't."
"Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is something about all this that I do not understand: but if ever we need to know it, you may be sure that we shall."
"Leave your luck while still winning."
"He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide."
