“Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my career and aside from sitting in on a couple of classes, here and there, I basically just use my own instincts.” EnoughUseMy OwnClassCareersCoupleLuckyTrainingSittingInstinctFormalHere And There Author:Nancy McKeon
“The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.” YearsBigsBoysCareersLuckyTenBrilliantFatsFlukes Author:Sandra Oh
“And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.” LongImportantMomentsPoliticalGivenCareersModernFrontsLuckyJournalismSeatsPolitical LifeLong CareersImportant Moments Author:Judy Woodruff
“For most of my career I've been very lucky to have avoided major injuries.” CareersLuckyMajorsInjuryAvoided Author:Mark Viduka
“I'm lucky to have worked with great actors, my whole career.” WholeActorsCareersLuckyGreat Actors Author:Elizabeth Banks
“I am one of the lucky few who is successful in their career, and I'm really enjoying myself.” EnjoyCareersSuccessfulLucky Author:Nathan Fillion
“I was very lucky once I got started with a career. I happened to get some really good parts to play with some really good people to play with.” PeoplePlayCareersHappenedLuckyGood People Author:Morgan Freeman
“I've been lucky to get some path-breaking films, which proved to be the turning point in my career. Be it 'Rock on!' 'The Last Lear' or 'Raajneeti,' directors started working in a different way.” WayDifferentLastsFilmCareersPathRocksLuckyDirectorsDifferent WaysTurning PointsLear Author:Arjun Rampal
“People always ask me about career choices, though it rarely ever seems like any kind of choice. It's just like, I really want to do something, this is what I can do, and that's it. I'm lucky to be doing this at all.” PeopleWantKindI CanSeemsChoicesAsksCan DoCareersLuckyAsk MeCareers Choices Author:Emile Hirsch
“I feel really lucky that, in my career, I've gotten a chance to explore a lot of different genres and kinds of films.” FeelsKindDifferentFilmChanceCareersLuckyGenreDifferent Genres Author:Ali Larter
“I think for a lot of artists, if you're lucky enough to have a kind of career, especially toward the end, you start to think about what the whole ensemble looks like. It's the whole that counts. The parts are given, but you don't know how the whole thing's going to look when it's all put together.” IfsThinkingKnowsLooksKindEndsEnoughWholeTogetherArtistGivenCareersKnow HowLuckyEnsemble Author:Frank Stella
“Most of the time I'm not even working, I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky. If there really is a god, then he really looks after me. All these years he's taken care of me, my career keeps getting better and better. Whatever I want just seems to come. And it keeps coming. So I promised myself that I have to pay for this, payback society. So this is why I started my Jackie Chan Foundation to help children and sick kids and people in hospitals.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsYearsLooksChildrenHelpingSeemsCareKidsPayCareersTakenLuckySickFoundationGet BetterHospitalsHelping PeopleJackiePaybackSick Kids Author:Jackie Chan
“Coast to Coast AM may just be the most unusual show I have ever witnessed or been a part of. You really almost have to be born into that arena, I think, in order to handle it. I was very lucky in that's the way I was guiding my own career. It was this thirst to really get to the bottom of some of these stories that kept pushing me.” ThinkingWayMayStoriesShowsOrderBornMy OwnCareersLuckyBottomHandlePushingUnusualThirstCoastArena Author:George Noory
“After I hurt the knee, football wasn't nearly as much fun. I was limited. But you make do with what you have. I adjusted some. I was lucky to play as long as I did, with the different kinds of injuries I got. I played with two severed hamstring muscles in my leg late in my career. I could barely run, other than to drop back to pass.” KindLongTwoDifferentPlayRunningFunHurtCareersFootballLuckyLateLegsKneesMusclesInjuryDifferent KindsHamstringsKnee Injuries Author:Joe Namath
“I never look a gift horse in the mouth. And I've been really, really lucky. I'm aware of that. And my career has been given to me by the people I've worked with, no question. The actors, the directors, the cinematographers, the writers, all of whom gave me the opportunity to work in the way that I have and I'm really grateful.” PeopleWayLooksHas BeensActorsOpportunityGivenCareersLuckyDirectorsMouthsHorseGratefulCinematographers Author:Meryl Streep
“Other people want a career or success because they think that will help them find their personal life somewhere. I've done it the other way around. What I have is what everybody else is looking for. I know I've got it made. I know I'm a very lucky man. That came first. Then the music and the career just kind of took care of themselves.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenWayWantFirstsKindMadeDoneHelpingCareCareersLuckyPersonal LifeLucky Man Author:John Fogerty
“To me acting is a hobby and I'm inspired by it. And if I'm going to spend time doing something that I'm not really inspired to do, then why am I doing it? I don't know if that sounds sort of new agey or whatever, but it's true. I've been lucky enough to have a musical career that has gone pretty good and acting is something I have always wanted to do.” IfsKnowsEnoughWantedSoundActingCareersGoneLuckyInspiredMusicalHobbiesEnd TimesNew AgeSpend Time Author:Justin Timberlake
“I was lucky with my parents, for my mom and my dad particularly, much more than my mom, who was very compassionate and loving to everyone. And then, as I got into my career, I started and other people started to realize that I was good at it.” PeopleParentRealizingCareersMomDadLuckyMy DadMy MomCompassionate Author:Shep Gordon
“I think I've been really lucky to keep my career so varied, and to be open. There's safety in repetition, but there's also a trap there.” ThinkingCareersLuckySafetyTrapsRepetition Author:Martin Short
“It's been great. I've been very lucky to work with more experienced actors early on in my career because I get a chance to learn from them. There is so much you can learn from them. You can just follow them and you'll be pretty safe.” ActorsChanceCareersLuckySafe Author:Katrina Kaif
“I was lucky enough to come in at the beginning of the independent film movement, and it's really shaped my life and my career.” LifeEnoughFilmCareersMovementLuckyIndependentIndependent Film Author:Julianne Moore
“It used to be that a movie star would have a 20-year career. Now if you get three to five years, you're lucky.” IfsYearsUsedThreeStarsCareersFiveLuckyUsed To BeFive YearsMovie Star Author:Rex Smith
“I don't think life owes me anything and the business doesn't owe me anything. The only way to approach it is by working hard and loving what you do. If you do that and have faith, maybe you will get lucky. I mean that sincerely and specifically. I truly believe that no professional career in the arts is capable without a healthy dose of luck.” IfsThinkingWayBelieveMeanArtHardCareersHealthyLuckyApproachCapableArt IsLuckHave FaithSincerelyDoseProfessional CareerLoving What You Do Author:Bryan Cranston
“I can make films. And some of them come out good, and some of them come out better, and some of them come out worse. But I've been very lucky over the years to be able to sustain the length of career that I've had.” YearsI CanAbleFilmCareersLuckyLength Author:Woody Allen
“Thank you, God, because I am lucky. Also let's face it, it turns out I'm black. And I'm having a career quite different from lots of people, so I feel doubly lucky.” PeopleFeelsDifferentFacesTurnsBlackCareersLuckyThank You God Author:Whoopi Goldberg
“The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way.” WayYearsFirstsFoundCareersLuckyHusbandYears AgoMotherhoodGreat Husband Author:Meryl Streep
“As an actor, you very rarely have the experience of picking up a script and getting a few pages into it and realizing that what you're holding in your hands is not just a role on a TV show, but it's one of those special parts that comes along, once or twice in a career. If you're lucky, you get an opportunity to do something really memorable and to be part of one of those rare shows that passes into that special category.” IfsShowsHandsActorsOpportunityRealizingCareersRolesSpecialTvsLuckyPagesScriptsMemorableCategoriesTv ShowsLucky You Author:Holt McCallany
“I consider myself lucky to have had wonderful teachers. They expose you to a lot and basically teach you how to paint. I think of my career as a series of lucky incidents.” ThinkingCareersTeachTeacherWonderfulLuckySeriesPaintIncidentsWonderful Teacher Author:Brice Marden
“You'd be lucky to get tortured to death in one of my films. It's the best thing that could happen to your career. But I'm very aware that as soon as you put women in this situation, all of a sudden people are like: "Wow, well wait a second!" Immediately, people become very sensitive to it.” PeopleWellsHappensFilmWaitingSituationCareersLuckyBest ThingsSensitiveWow Author:Eli Roth
“I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.” ChildrenHas BeensTwoCareersMiddleLuckySlips Author:Samantha Bond
“I'm living in a dream. I really consider myself really lucky. I was born and raised in Guatemala, in a village, where to go to the market you have to take two buses or drive about 20 minutes if you are lucky enough to have a car. I grew up very, very poor and I didn't even know that being an actor could be a career.” IfsKnowsTwoEnoughDreamActorsBornPoorCareersMinutesCarGrewLuckyGrew UpRaisedVillageBusBorn And RaisedGuatemala Author:Erick Chavarria
“The truth is I've just never had any kind of plan at all for my career, which is probably not a very flattering thing to admit. I don't know that I'd ever planned to be in this situation. I'm still just an idiot, really really stupid. It's not like I'm now a genius because this has happened. I just got hugely lucky.” KnowsKindStillsSituationCareersPlansHappenedStupidGeniusTruth IsLuckyIdiotFlatteringReally Stupid Author:Ty Burrell