“If you're lucky, you don't think in a straight line.” IfsThinkingLinesLuckyStraight LinesLucky You Author:Gene Simmons
“'All in the Family' took ten weeks to take off in 1971, and we were lucky to start in January, because if it had started in the regular fall season of 1970, I don't know if we would have lasted. The ratings didn't take off until the end of that fall season, when the other two networks ran out of fresh shows.” IfsKnowsTwoEndsShowsFallWeekLuckyTenSeasonsRanRatingJanuaryFall Season Author:Norman Lear
“There's something that happens where you go, if you're lucky, goodness me, from film to another film to another film. And you can sort of feel that if you step off that treadmill, it might all go horribly wrong and you might never be employed again, you know. And I suddenly thought that that's not necessarily the case. And I also thought we make drama as actors about people in the world and that if you are on that treadmill, you start making films about other films.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldFeelsMightHappensFilmActorsStepsCasesDramaLuckyGoodnessEmployedTreadmills Author:Ewan McGregor
“You know, an audition usually is you come in and read the scene and if you're lucky, you get to read it twice.” IfsKnowsSceneLuckyAuditionsLucky You Author:Ewan McGregor
“If I am lucky and find material that is interesting to me, I want to make it.” IfsWantInterestingMaterialsLucky Author:Bradley Fuller
“There is a peak and valley to careers and that includes fame. If you are lucky to ride this wave of fame to a plateau - it won't last there. I guess it is just a blue-collar work ethic that I was raised with.” IfsLastsCareersFameLuckyEthicsBlueRaisedWaveValleysWork EthicCollarsBlue CollarPeaks And Valleys Author:Bryan Cranston
“If you're lucky, you can keep the vehicle healthy and responsive over the years. If you're lucky, your own intentions have very little to do with this.” IfsYearsLittlesHealthyLuckyIntentionVehicleLucky You Author:Leonard Cohen
“I think, oh my god, kids are reading, and they care about a book enough to come over and talk to me about a book that they care about. If I think about it as being a celebrity, it would freak me out. But I just think, lucky me, that I get to be a part of this whole thing.” IfsThinkingBookEnoughWholeCareKidsReadingLuckyFreakTalk To Me Author:Kate DiCamillo
“Stagecoach is really my first Western-Western, the whole horses and gunplay. It was really fun. We shot it fast, too. We got lucky with the weather. If it rained, I don't know if we would have been able to finish it. We had like 12 shooting days for the whole thing.” IfsKnowsFirstsHas BeensWholeAbleFunLuckyShotsHorseWesternWeatherShootingStagecoaches Author:Judd Nelson
“For me, I'm not in an industry where I'm starving. I'm so lucky to have this job, I'm compensated for my work in an incredible way. But what I do ask is when I join a production I want to make sure that the male actor isn't making four times my salary, which has been true, or seven times my salary. And if that's true you go, you know what, I don't need this job. It's not really asking for more - it's asking for something that is respectable and equal to the male actor and you have to go, why are women being valued less?” IfsKnowsWayWantNeedsHas BeensJobsActorsAsksFourIndustryLuckyEqualAskingSevenMalesIncrediblesProductionsSalaryStarvingRespectableSo LuckyTrue You Author:Jessica Chastain
“I mean, if this [film Age of Trump] wasn't on Netflix, it would be playing at some lovely art house theater on the West Side once or twice or for a week or maybe two weeks if I was lucky and then it would go away, and I'd be lucky if I could sell the DVDs off my website.” IfsMeanArtTwoWould BeAgeFilmHouseSidesWeekTrumpLuckyTheaterSellsWestLovelyIf I CouldGoing AwayWebsiteTwo WeeksDvdsNetflixWest Side Author:Ava DuVernay
“If I were retired I wouldn't know what to do because I'd have to think, well, now what is it I want to do? And what I want to do is what I'm doing. I enjoy coming up with new ideas, which if I'm lucky they might be good ideas. I enjoy seeing them take shape. And I'm having fun doing it. So I wouldn't know why I'd want to retire.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantWellsIdeasMightFunEnjoySeeingShapesLuckyBe GoodHaving FunRetiringGood IdeasNew IdeasRetired Author:Stan Lee
“If you're an athlete, you might work your entire life, and you win the Super Bowl once, if you're lucky. And I feel like in the arts and entertainment we win the Super Bowl all the time.” IfsFeelsArtMightWinningLuckyAthleteEntertainmentBowlsSuper Bowl Author:Judd Apatow
“I have the opportunity to make my films and I think that's a luxury. I don't have any problems by filming things that can have a connection with left-wing policy, even if we have a right-wing government. There are some countries which cannot say the same, so I'm lucky.” IfsThinkingCountryProblemGovernmentFilmOpportunityLeftPolicyLuckyConnectionsWingsLuxuryRight WingLeft Wing Author:Miguel Gomes
“Some day you do something where you use everything you know. You don't do it ostentatiously where you see the workings going on. But some day, if you're lucky, that will happen.” IfsKnowsUseHappensLucky Author:Randy Newman
“If you make money back from your record, you're doing it smart. It's an expensive hobby. I'm lucky enough to still make a living as a musician through live work and odd bits of royalties.” IfsStillsEnoughBitsRecordsLuckyMusicianSmartMaking MoneyOddExpensiveHobbiesRoyalty Author:Robyn Hitchcock
“Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio. I take three or four baths to try to cleanse myself, so I'm fresh for Monday.” IfsTryingSpiritualThreeChurchFourAdviceTelevisionLuckyRadioSundayMondayBathsGood SpiritualSpiritual Advice Author:Maya Angelou
“My goal all along has just been to work and support myself. I've been really lucky to walk away from the 'Twilight' series unscathed. Somebody asked me recently what it's like to be a star. I thought that was the strangest question. If you saw my day-to-day life, the word 'star' just doesn't apply.” IfsStarsGoalWalksSupportSawsLuckySeriesTwilightDay To DayDay LifeDay To Day LifeTwilight Series Author:Anna Kendrick
“I love making music and performing for my fans, and I want to be happy and doing what I love still. I'm not taking a moment of this for granted, and if I'm lucky I'll be able to keep doing this. I love it. I'm very happy.” IfsWantStillsMomentsAbleFansLuckyGrantedPerformingVery HappyLove MakingWant To Be HappyI Want To Be Happy Author:Ariana Grande
“Everybody would like to be good, that's the silly thing, everybody always likes it when they're having a nice time or when they're happy or when it's sunny, they all dig it; but then they go and forget about it, they never really try to make it nice. They think that it just comes along and it's nice if you're lucky, or if you're unlucky it's bad for you.” IfsThinkingTryingForgetNiceLuckyBe GoodSillyLikesSunnyUnluckySilly ThingsNice Time Author:George Harrison
“I did a job, [Don King] took money, probably more than he should have. If I was supposed to get $10 million, I was lucky to get $6.5 million. It happens and you can't do much, you decide whether to take it or leave it. King was a promoter, and he was good at it.” IfsShouldHappensJobsMillionsKingsLuckyShould HavePromoters Author:Larry Holmes
“Most actors don't understand acting. I think it's an art form that craft is out the window. I don't think people get it at all, most of the time. Or they get some of it, not all of it. If you get an Academy Award nomination, you think 95 percent of the profession is unemployed at any given time, most people will never even find work as an actor, and the ones who do will probably make $50,000 a year at the most if they're lucky. Some will never do Broadway. Some will never do a major role. And a really, really, really small percentage of them maybe will be nominated for a major award.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsArtFormActorsGivenActingRolesLuckyMajorsPercentWindowProfessionCraftsAwardsBroadwayPercentagesAcademyUnemployedNominationsAcademy Awards Author:Viola Davis
“I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a good but not a great poet, because if you are exposed to the greats too soon it can just squash you as a writer.” IfsThinkingFirstsSaidPoetLuckyExposedHardyGreat PoetSquashAuden Author:David Duchovny
“You're lucky if you're in three great movies, or even one great movie. I've been so lucky. But if you rely on the business to dictate whether you're happy, it gets really complicated. You just can't do that. There have been times in my life that I've done that, and I've found it depressing.” IfsHas BeensDoneThreeFoundLuckyComplicatedRelyDepressingGet RealSo Lucky Author:Winona Ryder
“I've been very lucky because I've always had movies to do. So if I got bored between shows a movie would turn up.” IfsShowsTurnsLuckyBored Author:Billy Connolly
“In a growing number of states, you're actually expected to pay back the costs of your imprisonment. Paying back all these fees, fines, and costs may be a condition of your probation or parole. To make matters worse, if you're one of the lucky few who actually manages to get a job following release from prison, up to 100% of your wages can be garnished to pay back all those fees, fines and court costs. One hundred percent.” IfsMayMatterStatesJobsNumbersPayGrowingConditionsFineCostLuckyPercentHundredCourtPrisonFollowingExpectedManageReleaseWagesFeesImprisonmentParoleProbation Author:Michelle Alexander
“You're lucky if you reach the point where you go, "OK, I have a wonderful life ...I fly around the world, stay in beautiful places, people are generally quite sweet to me, what's to complain about?" But I think you have to get there... And it's taken me the best part of 54 years to reach that point where I'm like, "I'm very lucky, I'm lucky, I'm blessed" - all of those things. I wish I could impart that to other people but I think when you're young, you just don't listen.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldYearsBeautifulYoungWishTakenWonderfulSweetLuckyBlessedComplainingAround The WorldImpartBeautiful PlacesWonderful Life Author:Boy George
“If we're lucky we realize that life is really about family - your children, your family and your friends. Without that, the rest is hollow.” IfsChildrenLife IsRealizingLuckyOur ChildrenOur FamilyYour ChildrenHollowAbout Family Author:Paul Stanley
“If I can do anything in this time of my career, I want to make it easier for other actresses and girls who are growing up to go, 'I get to be a part of a comedy or an action film or a romantic comedy or a thriller or just a romance, without having to wind up with someone to complete us.' I complete me. I just got lucky that, after I completed myself, I met someone who could tolerate me.” IfsWantI CanActionFilmRomanceGirlCan DoCareersGrowing UpComedyGrowingWindEasierMetsLuckyActressesTolerateThrillersAction FilmsComplete Me Author:Sandra Bullock
“The great thing about theater is that when it's great, you'll remember it for the rest of your life. But if you go see ten shows, you'll only get five - if you're lucky - that'll give you that experience. But the rest, at the very least, will be interesting.” IfsGivingShowsRememberInterestingFiveLuckyTenTheaterGreat ThingsRest Of Your Life Author:Cate Blanchett
“The increment of new development will be the single building lot, if we are lucky, and most of the codes that are now enforced will be ignored because the redundancies they mandate will not be affordable.” IfsBuildingDevelopmentLuckyCodeIgnoredAffordableMandatesRedundancy Author:James Howard Kunstler
“We are lucky in the United States to have our liberal arts system. In most countries, if you go to university, you have to decide for all English literature or no literature, all philosophy or no philosophy. But we have a system that is one part general education and one part specialization. If your parents say you've got to major in computer science, you can do that. But you can also take general education courses in the humanities, and usually you have to.” IfsArtCountryStatesPhilosophyHumanityCoursesLiteratureParentCan DoUnitedUnited StatesLuckyComputerMajorsUniversityComputer ScienceEnglish LiteratureSpecializationLiberal ArtsGeneral Education Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“Anyone who lives with poor health or chronic pain, or who has endured poverty - real poverty - knows what it is to live with lack and a resulting fear so incessant that it becomes thoroughly normalized, invisible in its ubiquity. If you're lucky enough to have that fear begin to ease, it's an odd experience. A stranglehold eases off your entire body, one you never fully realized was there.” IfsKnowsRealEnoughBodyPainPoorPovertyLuckyInvisibleEaseOddIncessantChronic PainPoor HealthUbiquity Author:C.E. Morgan
“If there had been a charismatic figure in the United States who could mobilize fears, anger, racism, a sense of loss of the future that belongs to us, this country could be in real danger. We're lucky that there never has been an honest, charismatic figure. McCarthy was too much of a thug, you know? Nixon was too crooked. Trump, I think, is too much of a clown. So, we've been lucky.” IfsThinkingKnowsHas BeensRealCountryStatesLossUnitedUnited StatesToo MuchHonestFiguresDangerTrumpLuckyRacismClownCrookedThugCharismaticHug You Author:Noam Chomsky
“I don't see myself as successful because I've worked on only a handful of films. The way I look at it, if you're really, really lucky, if you consistently work hard over the course of ten years, if you refuse to take no for an answer, if you surround yourself with great mentors and are a sponge, willing to learn, then you're bound for something to happen.” IfsWayYearsLooksHardHappensFilmCoursesAnswersSuccessfulWillingHard WorkLuckyTenBoundsRefuseGreat MenSurroundMentorConsistentlyHandfulSurround YourselfSpongesWilling To Learn Author:Haley Bennett
“Every piece of art will be if it's lucky enough to be dug up, if there's anything to dig up.” IfsArtEnoughPiecesLucky Author:Pat Steir
“We have many dreams and many different chapters in life and I think life is about chapters. For me, from the time I was pretty young, I always thought that if I was lucky enough to achieve my dreams and if I had financial security, at a certain point in my life I wanted to give back. I wanted, just corny as it sounds, to try and make the world a better place.” IfsThinkingWorldGivingTryingDifferentEnoughDreamWantedYoungLife IsCertainSoundAchieveSecurityLuckyFinancialChaptersBetter PlaceGiving BackCornyFinancial Security Author:Sherry Lansing
“I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.” IfsLooksLittlesBeautifulLuckyBeautiful Things Author:Padma Lakshmi
“In my experience in series TV if you have a good crew and a great cast it's going to be a great group - similar to the theater where it's a bunch of people who are really talented and go to work each day and challenge each other and if you are lucky enough to get a hit then it's five or six or seven years of this kind of work.” PeopleIfsYearsKindEnoughChallengesFiveGroupsTvsLuckySixTheaterSeriesSevenCastsBunchEach DayCrewSeven Years Author:Denis Leary
“At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.” IfsWayDesignLuckyEvolveLucky You Author:Daniel Day-Lewis
“It's a real roller-coaster ride if you're lucky to have longevity in this business - you have to be able to ride those waves.” IfsRealAbleLuckyWaveLongevityRoller CoasterCoastersRoller Coaster Rides Author:Jennifer Lopez
“If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun.” IfsKnowsNeedsMomentsJobsFunChanceForeverLuckyPicksFortuneHorribleHopefullyKicksGood JobGood FortuneBad JobsHorrible Jobs Author:James McAvoy
“A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want.” IfsWayWantHardBigsMightHard WorkLuckyRaisedWhat You WantWho I Am Author:Martina McBride
“I am not sure how much I would like being married if I wasn't married to him. A man who likes flea markets and isn't gay? I knew I was lucky.” IfsMenGayLuckyMarriedLikesNot SureBeing MarriedFleasGay PrideFlea Markets Author:Lynda Barry
“If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it'd be a perfect world.” PeopleIfsWorldPerfectLuckyIf I CouldFountainBellyA Perfect World Author:Christopher Meloni
“I consider myself lucky to be an only child because if I had other siblings, my mother would not have been able to take me to every audition and be so supportive of my career.” IfsChildrenHas BeensAbleMotherCareersLuckyTake MeAuditionsSupportiveSiblingOnly Child Author:Lea Michele
“Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.” PeopleIfsWayChildrenPlayActorsFunRolesRichFootballLuckyBeachMy ChildrenFabulousGood WayCaribbean Author:Gary Oldman
“If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't think the playgrounds are going to be very good there! I'm really aware of how lucky I am but I have the kind of job where I can bring my child to work.” IfsThinkingKindChildrenI CanJobsLuckyBottomVery GoodScriptsMy ChildrenJunglePlaygrounds Author:Kate Beckinsale
“When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It's like the library: if you return them in good condition, you get to borrow more. I'm very lucky.” IfsConditionsReturnLuckyClothesLibraryShoesLovelyDesignerPremieresClothes And Shoes Author:Sarah Jessica Parker
“I have been lucky, of course. Like, last year, if I went out, I'd have to fight to chat someone up. This year, I look exactly the same, which is really scruffy, and yet lots of people seem to have just changed their minds and decided I'm really sexy.” PeopleIfsYearsMindLooksHas BeensSeemsLastsFightingCoursesChangedLuckyDecidedSexyLast Year Author:Robert Pattinson