“I've been very lucky in that the studios really respect me and they give me all my creative freedom. But nevertheless, they are inputs, they have opinions. It's the same thing for me as if you're in a shower and you're coming up with a tune, with a melody, but there are 70 people trying to sing their own melody at the same time. So you have to focus and concentrate, and not lose the track of your melody.” PeopleGivingTryingOpinionCreativeFocusLuckyTrackMelodyRespect Me Author:Alfonso Cuaron
“You need an immense amount of luck and an immense amount of perseverance to even be on the playing field for success on a grand scale. You work as hard as you can for ten years so you finally have a chance to be lucky - It's really rare that somebody gets lucky. It's usually a combination of a lot of talent, a lot of hard work. People that get lucky also tend to be really great looking.” PeopleChanceTalentHard WorkLuckyLuckPerseveranceReally Great Author:Chris Gethard
“To succeed in comedy you ultimately have to put in the hours and get lucky - The amount of people who are able to break through is so small a fraction of the amount of people trying.” PeopleTryingHoursBreakComedyLuckySucceed Author:Mike Birbiglia
“There's many hundreds of millions of people who have jobs harder than comedians. And I also remind myself of that everyday. No matter how frustrating this can be, I'm very lucky that I've been able to cobble together a little life where this is what I do.” PeopleTogetherLuckyEverydayComedianFrustrating Author:Chris Gethard
“I cast very much from the gut, and I think I was very lucky to be able to get... many amazing international... people that I had always really wanted to work with.” PeopleThinkingLuckyGuts Author:Rupert Sanders
“I take advantage of the opportunities that have come my way. I think I've lucked out that I've never been thrust in the spotlight where people wanted to dissect every aspect of my life. I've been given a lot of distance and respect. It's allowed me the best of both worlds. I have the job of my dreams, but I also have the freedom that doesn't always come with it. I feel very lucky in that sense.” PeopleThinkingWorldDreamOpportunityLuckyDistanceMy Way Author:Mandy Moore
“I think the essence of fashion is lightness, frivolity, and I'm very nostalgic for the time when Bérard was doing the windows, Cocteau was writing a play, Chanel did the costumes, Bérard did the sets. I don't have to tell you this, because Colette was the first to have revived the Rue St.-Honoré by precisely doing windows that attract people. And I really like that spontaneous spirit. And so, you're lucky to be with Colette, because it's a magic word.” PeopleThinkingWritingSpiritMagicFashionLuckyWindowSpontaneousNostalgicFrivolity Author:Ines de La Fressange
“I think me, Sean Bonnette and Laura Jane Grace, and a lot of the bands people feel that way about, we're just really honest in our lyrics. I think we got really lucky in that the right kind of people who would appreciate that heard us at the right time, because there are plenty of people that are honest in their lyrics.” PeopleThinkingKindGraceHonestLuckyAppreciatePlentyRight Time Author:Jeff Rosenstock
“When I went, I hadn't had very much time to have hopes or expectations. I knew very little about Nashville, and I think that was probably good. When I was there, I got really lucky - I ended up with people that just were amazing musicians, and that's the Nashville that I experienced. That is a big part of Nashville - there's a lot of musicians, and that makes it a very special place and shapes the city.” PeopleThinkingSpecialLuckyMusicianExpectationsHaving Hope Author:Anna Ternheim
“It's different everywhere you go. I'm lucky I'm drawn into people who love and support me. I'm sheltered from that life. I see how all over the world there's so much oppression and pain. I'm living in a bubble.” PeopleWorldDifferentPainSupportLuckyOppressionBubblesSupport Me Author:Nomi Ruiz
“I'm lucky right now because I'm not that famous, people will look at the work just as the work, and people respond to it pretty well. It's just hard to know exactly what group I need to meet and where I need to be. I think fame helps, but I want it to be separate as much as it can. Fame is just so weird, people just love famous people.” PeopleThinkingHelpingFameLucky Author:Alia Shawkat
“There's a vast ecosystem for music outside of Myspace and Facebook and you need to make sure that your music is in as many hands as possible. I wanted people to share my music and tell friends about me, and if you want to rely on word of mouth, you have to make it easy for people. I got lucky because I had a few songs that hit big and got a lot of links on blog posts.” PeopleSongEasyShareLuckyMusic IsRelyWord Of Mouth Author:Jonathan Coulton
“I've been very lucky and fortunate to meet people that are very inspirational in their spirits, too, and not just as filmmakers - in their personal life. I mean, Steven Spielberg is very inspirational just to sit down and talk for an hour, like Ingmar Bergman was. They know so much about life and, you know, movie-making, so it's just wonderful to be around those people.” PeopleMeanSpiritHoursWonderfulLuckyFilmmakerPersonal Life Author:Peter Stormare
“By doing what I do, by just staying, pardon me, true to myself and maintaining my maverick position, unbranded, unbought in a corporate sense, I've managed to migrate to and participate in the work of people far younger than my own children. This astounds me. It makes me feel all at once, beyond retirement age, as a player in the present tense. I'm a lucky guy.” PeopleChildrenAgeGuyPlayerLuckyRetirementMaverick Author:Van Dyke Parks
“After you have 250,000 people watching your stuff every day, obviously you're going to have a few people who are going to get a little bit obsessed with your content. But I've never experienced it in a negative way. Perhaps that's because I'm lucky. I guess for some people, they experience it in a negative way and that's how the movie portrayed it.” PeopleLuckyNegativeObsessed Author:Aubrey Plaza
“The problem for most people as they get older is that they start to buy into their own bullshit to the extent that they just have to eliminate from their inner sanctum anyone who is going to really challenge it. But I think all bandmates of U2 were lucky enough to have the four of us respect and regard each other to the extent that we're kind of always looking out for one another, so none of us can get away with buying into the bullshit.” PeopleThinkingKindEnoughProblemChallengesLuckyGet AwayBullshit Author:The Edge
“People act as if the internet will never die, that the Cloud will never die. In the face of that, much of human civilization, including our human bodies, seem so defective and mortal and constantly fading. Our lifespan is 80 years, 90 years if we're lucky, and that's a drop in the bucket compared to how long we think the internet will live.” PeopleThinkingLongInternetLuckyHuman BodyHuman Civilization Author:Virginia Heffernan
“At my wedding, my bridesmaids said, "You're the funniest person we've ever met." I hope I make people laugh, I hope I make people feel comfortable. I like to go out and have a good time. I don't take myself too seriously. I never have. This is all one spinning granite planet, and I'm lucky I get to act and do what I love. Life is good. I'm not going to compete for attention. You find that a lot in Hollywood with actresses, where you're just like, "Just chill out.".” PeopleAttentionLaughingLuckyGood TimesLove LifeChillHaving A Good TimeMaking People LaughLife Is GoodI Love Life Author:Anna Camp
“Now I'm not going to go, "Oh my God, what are people saying about me?" I had a choice to be a student and not become a model, and becoming a doctor was another one of my dreams. I had a choice between not becoming a singer or becoming a songwriter and writing behind the scenes; nobody would have seen me writing songs for other people. I had the choice of not marrying my man; we could have just been hidden lovers, but I couldn't cope with it. I had these choices to do all these things, so I'm not going to cry over a life which has been really lucky.” PeopleMenWritingDreamSongChoicesCryStudentsLoversSceneLucky Author:Carla Bruni
“Somebody came and directed a show at my high school. I approached it with sort of the sensibility - "Oh, I know that music. I'm going to go audition." I ended up being in it and I sang and it was mind-altering - to me, to my parents, who had never heard me sing like that. It put a stop to everything else that I was doing - every sport that I played, every instrument, it was all dropped because nothing felt like that. I feel really lucky that I found my passion at that point. There are people who are adults who don't know what their passion is and go through life doing "a job."” PeopleSchoolPassionSportsParentLuckyHigh SchoolSensibilityMy Passion Author:Anika Noni Rose
“To be very fair, it was Ian Marsh and Martyn Ware who started The Human League. They brought Philip Oakey in to sing, primarily because Philip was very tall. So it started out as their vision. I don't think anyone ever thought it would be as big as it became. Music evolves and people were looking for something different. We came out at the right time and were just very lucky.” PeopleThinkingDifferentVisionLuckyEvolveLeagueRight TimePhilip Author:Susan Ann Sulley
“I feel like we're always on the edge of someone standing up and saying, "Hey, the emperor's naked." I'm expecting that any second. But we're pretty lucky that way. The longer you do this, the more treacherous it can be, and the more pitfalls and sort of bad diversions you can find to paint yourself into a corner. But with every record, we try to change the situation, yet still keep it comfortable, and we're lucky to work with people who are inspiring to us who'll give us that extra push. It's nice to make records that are appreciated.” PeopleGivingTryingSituationNiceLuckyPaintExtrasExpectingAppreciated Author:Alan Sparhawk
“What I found most fun is just trying to get other people to crack up. That's always something that will help a movie and I've been lucky enough to have been able to work with some incredibly talented, collaborative comedy people in all of the stuff that I've been in. If you can get people laughing, cast or crew, you're going to have a good end product.” PeopleTryingEnoughHelpingFunLaughingComedyLucky Author:Joe Lo Truglio
“I get cast a lot of times in movies with nice people, for some reason, because I have a nice face or something. I mean, it's lucky I'm nice. Usually nice people in movies can be really boring.” PeopleMeanReasonNiceLuckyBoringNice People Author:Elizabeth Reaser
“I haven't really auditioned much in my career. I've been lucky in terms of the feature work; it's mostly been people that have been fans of mine that have called and said "We have this part, do you want to do it?" That kind of thing. And that's sort of still the way it is right now - I don't really go after features too much.” PeopleKindTermLucky Author:Chris Elliott
“The Larry Sanders Show сhanged my life. I am so thankful that - I mean, go figure. Most people are lucky to get one good series, but I got two ground-breakers. I just knew when I read that "Hey Now" script that something was afoot. Those were seven of the greatest years of my life. I learned so much, and it affirmed everything I thought comedy was. It was really a tremendous experience.” PeopleMeanComedyLuckySeven Author:Jeffrey Tambor
“I ain't the first on the list that people are sending scripts to. I'm very lucky. I've managed to put myself in the position with some directors, yes, who will be calling me directly, and we're working on things and talking about things, but that's on a purely creative level. And then you go and have to deal with the financial level.” PeopleCreativeLuckyFinancial Author:Christian Bale
“I find more and more, as time goes on, these people I meet, they are starting to become these people I look up to more and more. Like Julianne Moore, also, on Crazy Stupid Love: kids, husband, priorities straight. Or Woody Harrelson's like that. Those are the people I really admire, and that's success to me: being able to balance that life and not buy into it. And do the work that you want to do and makes you happy, because you're lucky enough to do it. But if I never got a role again, I've got this incredible life.” PeopleEnoughKidsCrazyStupidBalanceLuckyHusbandIncrediblesPrioritiesAdmireLook UpMake You HappyWoody Author:Emma Stone
“I wanted to be a playwright in college. That's what I was interested in and that's what I was moving toward, and then I had the lucky accident of falling in love with film. I was 19 or 20 that I realized films are made by people. Shooting digitally became cheaper and better. You couldn't make something that looked like a Hollywood film, but you could make something through which you could work out ideas. I was acting, but I was also conceiving the plots and operating the camera when I wasn't onscreen. I got very unvain about film acting, and it became a sort of graduate school for me.” PeopleSchoolFilmMovingFallActingCollegeLuckyFalling In LoveWork OutI RealizedGraduatesPlaywrightGraduate School Author:Greta Gerwig
“I'm not one of these people who is sour about academia. I'm very lucky not to be in academia, but I am an absolute parasite. While I was writing my book on comparative philosophy I was drawing on some fantastic scholars - university based people. The academy is absolutely necessary, but there should also be a role for those bringing it together. It's such a frustration sometimes.” PeopleWritingBookSometimesPhilosophyTogetherLuckyFantasticFrustrationScholar Author:Julian Baggini
“You can connect with anybody nowadays. You can literally go on there and leave a message for Oprah Winfrey. If you want to say something to Hillary Clinton, you can tweet her! That's something I don't think anybody saw coming. It's also a way for people who aren't Oprah or Hillary to make a name for themselves and let people know they're out there. It's not exclusive to people who get lucky in life. It's amazing.” PeopleThinkingLuckyClintonTweet Author:Macy Gray
“Maybe the the luxury of not having acting be my only profession is that I can be more selective about what I choose to be in. I've been really lucky in terms of film projects with people, terrific actors and also writers and directors that I really respect.” PeopleFilmTermActingLuckyProfession Author:Ricky Jay
“I came in as an established artist. People were hiring me for what I did and for who I was. I think that has given me a vast amount of leeway; I feel so lucky that I came in that way.” PeopleThinkingArtistLuckyHiringSo Lucky Author:Molly Crabapple
“For me, difference is beautiful, there is not only one beauty, and in a collection I always like to show mixed directions. When you look at people or things, there are all these codes and standards that come into play around what is considered ugly or beautiful, and I've always questioned that. When you're a kid, you're not conditioned, you don't see perversity, there's a state of innocence where everything is beautiful, you see differently....I am lucky because I am doing now what I dreamt of doing as a child, and I like to think that I've retained a childlike state of mind.” PeopleThinkingMindChildrenKidsBeautifulLuckyUglyInnocenceCodeState Of Mind Author:Jean Paul Gaultier
“I've got two older sisters, which I think was the best thing, but also the worst thing. They dressed me up like a girl, but at the same time I think they taught me a lot of what they experienced and what they lived through, and passed that on to me as a young man and influenced how I approached not only women, but people. I got very lucky with the family I was born into. From my older sisters to my mother and father, they're just good, kind-hearted people.” PeopleThinkingMenMotherGirlFatherWorstLuckyMother And FatherOlder Sister Author:Milo Ventimiglia
“I happen to be one of those lucky people who says that she's a working actor. And to always be working is very fulfilling and I'm just lucky because the opportunities just came up. And as an Asian American female actor, the opportunities have been furthering, have been widening all across the years. And I can say that there are many young people who see that the opportunities are expanding, as well as you can make it yourself.” PeopleOpportunityLuckyFemaleFulfillingAsian American Author:Tamlyn Tomita
“When I broke into music journalism it wasn't easy but there was more of an established path. I wanted and was able to have a grown-up person's job with a real salary writing for a fairly sizable audience about stuff I cared about. When you're starting out, you try to get as much experience as you can so people will see your work, and maybe start giving you the assignments you want, and paying you (hopefully both). And if you're lucky you land someplace where you can stay for a while. But today that's a trickier trajectory to envision.” PeopleGivingWritingTryingRealTodayEasyAudiencePathLuckyJournalismHopefullyBrokeLucky You Author:Anthony DeCurtis
“I do really enjoy having a crowd of people out to see me. They really motivate me. I feel really lucky they've come down so I give it what I have got every time.” PeopleGivingEnjoyLucky Author:Jamie Lidell
“One thing I've always been really proud of about our band is that we've done what we wanted to do, what we enjoy doing, and we've been really lucky that people have responded to it the way that they have. As long as we continue to really enjoy what we do and make decisions with integrity, I'm hoping people continue to respond to that.” PeopleLongDoneEnjoyDecisionProudIntegrityLucky Author:Tad Kubler
“I could be inspired by something I see or something I hear and write down or send to a friend or a writer or whether I have instrumental tracks or just a couple chords recorded on my phone. If I have a couple sessions set, I'll go into the studio with the people I'm lucky enough to call my friends because I feel like I can talk to them and then suddenly our conversations turn into these songs you hear on the radio. I still don't understand how it happens but I talk about my experiences and my situations and everything and then they turn into these amazing pop songs.” PeopleWritingEnoughSongSituationCoupleLuckyInspiredTrackPop Song Author:Hailee Steinfeld
“I have such respect for people who do non-fiction casting after settling on the grandparents we got for this. It is really hard to find people who are not fame-whores. We're lucky these people actually wanted to spend their time doing this. All of them would have much rather been cooking without the cameras, being with their families. That's why they're great characters.” PeopleCharacterLuckyCookingSettlingGrandparentGreat Character Author:Mo Rocca
“I'm a very private person, and you have a lot of people looking into your personal life, away from football. That's the one thing that I don't like, but I always remember how lucky we are that we're playing football.” PeoplePersonsRememberOne ThingFootballLuckyPersonal LifePlaying Football Author:Frank Lampard
“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
“I am lucky, that is all. Lucky because there are a lot of people - producers, directors, people who buy tickets - who put confidence in me.” PeopleLuckyDirectorsProducersTickets Author:Antonio Banderas
“I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.” PeopleEyeIndividualRolesLuckyRepressed Author:Damian Lewis
“I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.” PeopleStillsAbleNiceLuckyVery NiceSubway Author:Laura Linney
“I think some people just have an innate musical ability, and I'm lucky enough to be one of those people.” PeopleThinkingEnoughAbilityLuckyMusicalInnateMusical Ability Author:Marina and the Diamonds
“I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do.” PeopleTypeLuckyMusicianDedicated Author:Wynton Marsalis
“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
“When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!” PeopleThinkingBookGuyLuckyBewilderedLucky Guy Author:David Mitchell