Lucky Quotes - Page 11

• There are a lot of actors in the world, there's a small number that actually get to work as actors, and there is a tiny group of actors that are celebrated in the way that I have been. I feel incredibly lucky.

  John C. Reilly

  Small Numbers, Groups, Actors

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• I'm so lucky to have been raised the way I have, because my parents believed that everyone had the right to their own feelings, opinions, and existence; as long as they weren't harming others, you had to defend those rights.

  George Clooney

  Rights, Long, Parent

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• I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention.

  George Clooney

  Mistake, Turkeys, Careers

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• There are many things I'm looking forward to in 2013, both personally and professionally. Plans for new restaurants in the U.S., including Eataly Chicago, are underway, and I'm gearing up for the 2013 Ironman world championships in Hawaii - if I'm lucky enough to get a spot!

  Joe Bastianich

  Chicago, Hawaii, World

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• I was lucky, you know, I always had a beautiful girl and the money was good. Although I would have done the whole thing over for, oh, perhaps half.

  Bob Hope

  Beautiful, Girl, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm often asked, "What is your favorite moment during the 30 years you hosted [The Tonight Show]?" I really don't have just one. The times I enjoyed the most were the spontaneous, unplanned segments that just happened, like Ed Ames' infamous "Tomahawk Toss" that produced one of the longest laughs in television history. When these lucky moments happen, you just go with them and enjoy the experience and high of the moment.

  Johnny Carson

  Years, Laughing, Tonight

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I feel so fortunate to be one of the lucky ones who is so grateful and appreciative to know such great synonyms for thankful.

  Demetri Martin

  Grateful, Appreciative, Feels

  Twitter post from Jun 01, 2011

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• I've dodged so many bullets. Not just because of unsafe sex, but because of the amount of drugs I did, the amount of alcohol, the amount of work I was doing. I started the Elton John AIDS Foundation because I got so lucky.

  Elton John

  Sex, Alcohol, Drug

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'd be in the backyard minding my own business. The other kids would call me names, like meatball head or neo-Calvinist. I'd run after them, but lucky for them the chain would snap my neck back.

  Emo Philips

  Running, Kids, Names

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• There are Russian spies here now. And if we're lucky, they'll steal some of our secrets and they'll be two years behind.

  Mort Sahl

  Years, Two, Secret

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• I think all gay guys should get married. I think they should have to get married. They should have to adopt kids because, actually, I'm getting tired of their happy-go-lucky lifestyle. I've had it with them being all happy and in shape. I could look good in denim short shorts and combat boots, too, if I had all day to do leg presses at the gym.

  Greg Giraldo

  Tired, Kids, Gay

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• You're lucky to head a coalition government. I am a coalition government on my own.

  John Major

  Government, Coalitions, My Own

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• I met Gary (Burton) at the Wichita Jazz Festival when I was 18 -- he was one of my favorite musicians and I got to play a few tunes with him there. Shortly after that, I joined his band, which was the equivalent of joining the Beatles for me! He was, and still is, one of the greatest musicians I have ever been lucky enough to be around.

  Pat Metheny

  Play, Musician, Tunes

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• I'm really fortunate. I'm really happy, and I'm really really lucky to be where I am.

  Mariah Carey

  Really Happy, Fortunate

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• Their forward got a lucky squeeze from the defender.

  Ron Atkinson

  England, Defenders

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish she [Cameron Diaz] would have done more with.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Opportunity, Wish, Done

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• I got very lucky to work with Wes Craven, very early on in my career, and continued to work with Wes for almost 19 years. I learned so much from him, and about his sense of story and his sense of horror, and that was great to be a part of.

  Patrick Lussier

  Years, Careers, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• I was really, really lucky because I have always worked. It hasn't always been consistent, but I have always worked.

  Gwendoline Christie

  Consistent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was so lucky that I didn't have to audition. It's just such a grueling process, in itself.

  Moon Bloodgood

  Auditions, Process, So Lucky

  Source: collider.com

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• I just feel incredibly lucky. I went to drama school and about 28 of us graduated. I graduated from drama school in 2000, and I would say about two of us are working and able to make a living out of it. It is a tough profession. To have the kind of success I have had is really amazing, and I am incredibly grateful.

  Naomie Harris

  Drama, Grateful, School

  "Naomie Harris Interview THE FIRST GRADER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 11, 2011.

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• I'm lucky enough to split my time between the field and the office. Some land surveyors in larger outfits can work mostly from behind a desk, managing many field crews at once.

  Mark Mason

  Land, Office, Splits

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I'm so lucky that I get to write my own music and write my own stories, so every single time I look down in the audience and I see somebody singing the words back to me, it makes it all worth it.

  Taylor Swift

  Writing, Singing, Looks

  "Country singer Taylor Swift takes 'Fearless' approach to stardom". Interview with Nekesa Mumbi Moody, www.metro.us. May 28, 2009.

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• I'm so lucky that my songs are basically my diary put to music.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Diaries, So Lucky

  "Q&A: Taylor Swift's 'Fearless' approach to stardom". Interview with Nekesa Mumbi Moody, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. May 27, 2009.

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• We [actors] are so lucky to do jobs that fulfill us and make us happy. We don't go to work thinking okay, we're working to put food in the fridge. We are doing that too, but we're working because we love what we do.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Jobs, Thinking, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything. I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that. Some women have all of this to do, too. And they manage and they live longer. How we do that, I don't know.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Running, Real, Home

  Source: collider.com

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