"When done right, working is a series of decisions that you make which allow you to refine and refine and refine your highest and best use. Ultimately, if you are lucky, you will find out where you belong."
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"I was very, very lucky because I started swimming when most of the landmarks in the world had not been swum."
"The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side."
"This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky."
"I just feel fortune just to have been lucky enough, and worked hard enough, and blessed."
"I've been very lucky being in New York. While there are many things that have impacted my life, I have been able to stay here and do my own work."
"A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it."
"This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret."
"The highs and lows of show business is a rollercoaster for sure. There's so many highs, there's just moments of your life where you go, "Wow I can't believe how insanely lucky I am," and then you can turn around and the next moment feel so completely caught up in your own wanting, and desiring, and needing and feel like somehow you're missing something. It's just higher the high, the lower the low."
"I used to get a lot of people saying 'Oh, you are such a lucky granny.' But the fact of the matter is you can be a grandma at 35 these days."
"I have a collection of lucky pennies, and I like to carry some of them with me. So far, they seem to be working!"
"I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me."
"I worked hard, but I was lucky the right people happened to see my work."
"Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something."
"If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't have hits, you don't get recorded again."
"Luckily I am very, very privileged and feel very lucky to be getting work and my kiddies are not feeling the brunt of any kind of horror that's going on today. So I'm super lucky."
"You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity."
"When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I was lucky to be under the care of trained health care personnel. I started wondering then what was happening to women in rural villages."
"Breakfast Club was great because we had a real rehearsal, and we shot primarily in sequence. I thought that was going to be how movies were done. I didn't really know how lucky we all were. We had a director that liked actors. I didn't know that was going to be rare."
"[John Hurt] just really gifted, and I had a great time working with him and [am] very lucky to have worked with him."