“I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me.” StillsDiesNextLuckyExpected Author:Dee Dee Ramone
“You never know why or when the next job is coming. I actually like that. It's kind of exciting. I don't punch in. I don't have a 9 to 5 job. When you do work you're lucky enough to go to interesting places and meet mostly interesting and talented people, so it's really a great job if you can work.” PeopleIfsKnowsKindEnoughJobsNextInterestingLuckyExcitingGreat JobInteresting Places Author:Michael Vartan
“I just look at what's the most fun thing I can do next. I'm not looking to prove anything, or to break out or to break away. I feel so lucky, honestly, that I'm still working.” FeelsLooksStillsI CanNextFunCan DoBreakLuckyProveHonestlyBreak OutSo LuckyFun Things Author:Lucy Lawless
“I went around to the little schoolhouses, talking like a professor, explaining our platform. We were lucky if the collection gave us enough for gas to get to the next place. We encouraged questions, and people asked us if it was true we were going to take their farms, like the Soviets in Russia, and did we believe in God.” PeopleIfsBelieveLittlesEnoughNextTalkingLuckyRussiaCollectionsGasBelieve In GodFarmsProfessorsPlatformsExplaining Author:Tommy Douglas
“A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls. When we nap, we are resting our eyes while our imaginations soar. Getting ready for the next round. Sorting, sifting, separating the profound from the profane, the possible from the improbable. Rehearsing our acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, our surprise on receiving the MacArthur genius award. This requires a prone position. If we're lucky, we might drift off, but we won't drift far. Just far enough to ransom our creativity from chaos.” IfsSoulEnoughBodyMightEyeCareNextImaginationSleepCreativityPositionAcceptanceReadyGeniusLuckySpeechSurpriseProfoundChaosRoundsConfusedPrizeAwardsReceivingSoarNobelNapsImprobableNobel PrizeSeparatingProfaneRehearsingRansomSortingSiftingAcceptance SpeechMacarthur Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach
“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.” FeelsBelieveI CanMomentsShowsTurnsNextMissingHigherLuckyLowsCaughtWowCaught UpShow BusinessHighs And LowsMissing SomethingRollercoaster Author:Jim Carrey
“I wish I could say I had some sort of master plan where one role leads to the next role, but a lot of it really is persistence and luck and being prepared when you are asked to jump on a project. There isn't any one rule that I follow. Obviously, I'll always shoot to work with the best actors, directors and filmmakers. I've been incredibly lucky to be able to do that.” AbleNextActorsWishRolesPlansMastersLuckyDirectorsProjectsLuckPreparedPersistenceFilmmaker Author:Dermot Mulroney
“You've got work to do. Don't put this off. And don't take the long view, here. You know? Life is today and tomorrow and - and if you're lucky, next week.” IfsKnowsLongTodayLife IsNextViewsWeekTomorrowLuckyNext WeekToday And Tomorrow Author:Garrison Keillor
“I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune.” IfsThinkingGivingWritingTryingYearsHardTodayJobsTimeNextHappenedOne DayLuckyDeterminationYeahLuckFortuneSevenPersistenceSooner Or LaterSeventiesPersistentSeven YearsMonarchyLooking For A Job Author:Jerry Della Femina
“A man turns to the guy next to him who's covered in bandages from head to toe and asks "What happened?". "I fell through a glass window," explains the man. The first man says: "Lucky you were wearing all those bandages."” MenFirstsHumorFunnyGuyTurnsNextAsksHappenedHe ManLuckyWindowGlassesCoveredToesLucky YouBandages Author:Frank Carson
“That is the American experiment. An ethnic group arriving on America's shores, to be reviled and hazed, living in squalor, or if they are lucky Squalor Heights, working hard to give their children or grandchildren the opportunity to sh*t on the next group landing on our shores.” IfsGivingChildrenHardAmericaNextOpportunityGroupsLuckyExperimentsHeightShoreGrandchildrenLandingArrivingEthnic GroupsSqualor Author:Jon Stewart
“It's what I love about what I do and the life that I'm able to have and be able to just be so normal one day and be here the next...I feel so lucky to be able to do what I do.” FeelsAbleNextOne DayLuckyNormalSo Lucky Author:Dakota Fanning
“I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my disruptive ways in the classroom. The next Saturday I was acting, and thereafter it became a ritual of my youth to see a show at the Belvoir on Sundays and, if I was lucky, another at the Opera House on Monday after school.” IfsWayShouldShowsSchoolNextHouseParentActingClassTeacherYouthDramaLuckySundayRitualOperaClassroomSaturdayMondayCurbDisruptiveAfter SchoolOpera HouseDrama Class Author:David Wenham
“I know that, physically, I'm a very demure-looking person. But I certainly have as much aggression or anger as the next person, and that's got to come out somehow. I'm lucky that I get to play music, and that it's not going to come out in some totally destructive way.” KnowsWayPersonsPlayNextLuckyDestructiveAggressionDemure Author:Annie E. Clark
“I was lucky that I was getting exposed to a lot of different kinds of films, and I was liking them all. So it seemed logical to me that you could - as in the style of the studio directors of the 30s and 40s - jump from one genre to the next, with the same satisfaction.” KindDifferentFilmNextStyleLuckyDirectorsSatisfactionStudiosGenreLogicalExposedDifferent Kinds Author:Steven Soderbergh
“It's a struggle. It's really, really hard. I'm already nervous for my next one. You have to put more and more movie stars in movies these days. And of course, I would like to have more than $3million to make it. But, again, if that's what I was offered I wouldn't turn it down. I guess studios know that. But I'm one of the lucky ones, I guess.” IfsKnowsHardTurnsCoursesNextStarsStruggleLuckyStudiosNervousThese DaysMovie Star Author:Nicole Holofcener
“I've met a lot of famous people. I'm lucky enough to have been able to be Elvira. I would probably have to say the most famous is probably Elvis Presley, though. I spent an evening, a night, and part of the next day with him.” PeopleHas BeensEnoughAbleNightNextMetsLuckyEveningNext Day Author:Cassandra Peterson
“I put myself in the category of "Lucky Guy," and my hopes for the future are that I can continue to push the envelope for myself, and creatively and see what's next.” I CanGuyNextLuckyCategoriesEnvelopesHope For The FutureLucky Guy Author:Charlie Day
“Obviously, I've been very lucky in general in my career, but I feel that I've been very lucky in terms of having directors come along at the right times who have taken me to the next level of where I needed to be.” FeelsNextTermLevelsCareersTakenNeededLuckyDirectorsRight TimeNext Level Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“I looked massive next to Ryan Seacrest! But I was lucky that I've never had anyone say, 'Jordin, you need to lose weight.'” NeedsNextLosesLuckyWeightMassiveLose Weight Author:Jordin Sparks
“I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor. That's a lucky opportunity, and that drives me to want to be good at that.” ThinkingWantYearsNextActorsOpportunityActingLuckyAmbitionBe GoodReally CoolCool ThingsLife Ambition Author:Kristen Stewart