Lucky To Have Quotes

#1. 'One Tree Hill' was my very first television audition; it was a fairytale. I feel really lucky to have that level of success right out of the gate.

Hilarie Burton

#2. How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.

Evans G. Valens

#3. You have no idea how to comfort anyone, do you? (Astrid)
In case you haven't noticed, princess, social skills aren't my forte. Hell, you're lucky I'm housebroke. (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#4. I was a lucky kid. You could have got 10 kids to be in The Byrds who were better than I was.

Chris Hillman

#5. I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.

Mackenzie Astin

#6. I'm not so in a rush to direct just anything because I'm lucky that I can make a living so far as an actor and not have to worry about that as a director. And so I can be a little more choosy in things I direct.

Steve Buscemi

#7. I also realized that there's a difference between soul mates and true love."
"Is one type of love better than the other? I don't know, but I'm lucky enough to have found them both.

Lisa De Jong

#8. It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over.

Laurie Colwin

#9. I am one of millions who have been treated for depression and gotten well; I was lucky enough to have a psychiatrist well versed in using lithium and knowledgeable about my illness, and who was also an excellent psychotherapist.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#10. I don't know what the answer is, but I'm very blessed and lucky to have made a good living doing what I've loved to do. I just hope I can do another one after this.

Donnie Fritts

#11. I have very little interest in the bottom line or signing artists to help make the label profit. That's a lucky, unique position to be in, but it all comes out in the wash.

Jack White

#12. I am a follower of Jesus. My husband really brought me to the Lord when I was 18 and I am so lucky to have a platform through the studio.

Jodi Benson

#13. Well, I'm not as lucky as you to have this every day.

Wendy Mass

#14. Most actors are lucky to ever get a job, period. I never forget that, because I have so many actor friends in L.A., and most of us barely ever work. And those of us that do, it's still only 60 days out of the year that we're actually on camera. It's an absurdly low number.

Emile Hirsch

#15. I hope they know how lucky they are to have you. But that doesn't mean I will ever stop trying to have you for myself. You know as well as I do, Meena, that we belong together. I hope that day will come sometime soon. In the meantime: truce.
With all the love in my heart, Lucien

Meg Cabot

#16. Basketball has always and will always come first to me but it's also given me the chance to do really fun things and work with really fun people and its something I'm lucky to have.

Blake Griffin

#17. I think some people just have an innate musical ability, and I'm lucky enough to be one of those people.

Marina And The Diamonds

#18. If we are lucky enough to have good leaders at the top, change will happen quickly. Unfortunately,

Chetan Bhagat

#19. I am a very lucky artist in the sense that I have had all my life a lot of opportunities to do what I want to do.

Robert Barry

#20. The roles I was lucky enough to get were real stretches for me: usually a character who was older, or a little weird, or whatever. And it was hard, not just for the lack of work but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you.

Kathy Bates

#21. I was lucky to have such a loving, crazy family. I learned to give and share.

Leo Buscaglia

#22. I feel lucky that I didn't have to give up music in exchange for getting clean. I wouldn't recommend that anyone else continue to DJ while they're getting clean.

Larry Tee

#23. I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.

Barbara Amiel

#24. As a kid, he would have given just about anything to touch a naked Barbie, but he'd never been lucky enough to get within ogling distance. Now that he was afforded a good look at her, he discovered she had a scrawny ass and her knees made weird crunching sounds.

Rachel Gibson

#25. I'm lucky to have worked with all the people that I have, and I really love what I do, and that is very important, too.

Emily Alyn Lind

#26. People that I know, the vast majority, who are successful work really, really hard. Sure, there's some people that either get lucky or inherited it or don't have to work hard for some reason, but the vast majority who are successful work really, really hard.

Will Packer

#27. How unlucky I am that this should happen to me. But not at all. Perhaps, say how lucky I am that I am not broken by what has happened, and I am not afraid of what is about to happen. For the same blow might have stricken anyone, but not many would have absorbed it without capitulation and complaint.

Marcus Aurelius

#28. I just feel like why spend all my time doing something that makes me unhappy just to spend my time off thinking about how I have to go back to a job. It's such a vicious cycle that people get stuck in. But I'm also very lucky. I can't sit here too eagerly and say all that.

Justin Vernon

#29. I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.

Cameron Crowe

#30. A girl would be lucky to have you, but not like this, Carmine. Not the way you treat people now. You're wasting your time, and it's not worth it. You need to find something that is. So, maybe your life isn't boring, but it has to be unfulfilling.

J.M. Darhower

#31. I didn't think that it's something that would happen. I didn't think I would be in the position, emotionally or financially, to be able to do that. But I've been lucky [to have big family].

Jim Gaffigan

#32. Those of us who have been lucky enough to experience a calling in our work have a certain faith and peace of mind that it's exactly when we're supposed to be doing.

Chip Conley

#33. At German unification, we were lucky to get so much help from West Germany. Now, we have the good fortune of being able to help each other in Europe.

Angela Merkel

#34. I have been waiting to win a world championship since 1985. I've had three cracks at a world title - in karting, I finished third at Le Mans; that hurt because it was very close, but then in Formula One there wasn't really an opportunity to finally crack it, so it's third time lucky.

Allan McNish

#35. He'd heard about Holly putting some magical whammy on him, bringing to life the legend of the Chosen that gave a vampire the power to exist on sexual energy rather than blood. Forced to have sex on a regular basis. Doctor's orders. Lucky bastard.

Sharon Ashwood

#36. I am very lucky. I have known wonderful romantic love in my life but to actually see this little creature and find him to be the most beautiful creature in the world. I know all mothers and fathers feel that way.

Anne-Marie Duff

#37. The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.

Trevor Nunn

#38. Believe me, I don't take that lightly. To have struck gold twice with 'Rent' and 'Wicked.' I know it's rare and I'm very lucky to have that kind of phenomenon in my life. They're not just great shows, they're shows that resonate with young audiences.

Idina Menzel

#39. Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline - like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family.

Flea

#40. I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.

Oscar Niemeyer

#41. I'm not sure that's quite what I asked,"
said Laurent. His voice had the same
quality as his gaze. "This is close
quarters."
"Close enough to see your eyelashes,"
said Damen. "It's lucky you do not have
the size to breed great warriors.

C.S. Pacat

#42. I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do.

Wynton Marsalis

#43. I generally try and have great days, because I feel very lucky to be doing what I'm doing.

Imogen Poots

#44. I feel so lucky to have been in a group where it was a real band. This wasn't a singer and guitar player and some other guys.

Robbie Robertson

#45. I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.

Sarah McLachlan

#46. We were born to be friends. We both knew it. The Australian Aborigines have the traditional belief that a complete human being comprises two parts that are split before birth, that we spend our lives seeking the other part to make ourselves whole again, and that only the lucky succeed in doing so.

John Grant

#47. Donner likes what he does and enjoys being on a set. He doesn't have to do it, its not like he has to make the rent. When I get to be his age and still enjoy what I'm doing like him, I'd be lucky.

Ethan Embry

#48. One good thing about television is that you have a lot of people with money who have real good cameras going around to all these countries. You haven't been there? Great. Turn on The History Channel or The Discovery Channel. So, we're lucky in that way.

Grace Slick

#49. I learned that my sadness never destroyed what was great about me. You just have to go back to that greatness, find that one little light that's left. I'm lucky I found one little glimmer stored away.

Lady Gaga

#50. I feel very, very lucky to have come from the family I did. We have our dysfunctions and our problems, just like any family. But my parents are extremely loving people.

Annette Bening

#51. There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.

Lalaine

#52. To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky to have white men coming over here, is one thing. But to say that the whole of the American prosperity was based on exploiting the indigenous population would be a great mistake.

Amartya Sen

#53. I have been so damn lucky to be able to do what I love my entire life. I never take that for granted.

Michael Skolnik

#54. Love is a pie and I am lucky enough to have almost every flavor in mine.

Carolyn Ferrell

#55. We're all terrible people. Eventually, we all become terrible, maybe around the middle of our lives, and then, if we're lucky, we have time to find a way to be good again.

Dean Bakopoulos

#56. Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you.

Audrey Hepburn

#57. Simply being born female in our society is to grow up being told your worth as a person is tied to how slim and attractive you are. Even for those of us lucky enough to have evolved parents, the message is still driven home by the world at large.

Padma Lakshmi

#58. I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.

Maeve Binchy

#59. We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and I'm lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see what's out there and see what's happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way.

Jennifer Garner

#60. I've been lucky between 'Buffy,' 'Angel,' 'Alias,' and then 'Lost.' The thing they all have in common is that they were all fearless. They were not afraid to be different and try something different. Even if you didn't know that it was going to work, just try to do something new and fresh.

Drew Goddard

#61. I'm very lucky to have a job that I love.

Victoria Beckham

#62. I consider myself very lucky. God has a funny way of bringing some things around and knocking you in the head with the ultimate destination. Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to. It came in His time, not mine.

Jim Morris

#63. See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky?

M. Night Shyamalan

#64. Maybe, if you're lucky enough to have someone who really cares about you, someone you can trust, someone who reminds you to believe in yourself, you can survive absolutely anything ...

Heather Davis

#65. Don't go getting swollen because you got lucky once. Any Messenger alive will tell you to stay out at night when you have to, not because you want to. The ones that want to always end up cored.

Peter V. Brett

#66. 'SNL' is one of those jobs where you are constantly reminded of how lucky you are and that you get to meet some of these people whose work you enjoy. Then you get to meet them, and they are just wonderful people. It turns out wonderfully, and you have a great conversation.

Bobby Moynihan

#67. I do happen to have a good life ... But I also like to work. I feel like I got the brass ring and I got very lucky in this.

George Clooney

#68. Not many young women of my age have been lucky enough to have had a wonderful mentor in their life.

Beeban Kidron

#69. We're born alone and we die alone, but we get to travel with people along the way, and if you get lucky, you have a worthy consort.

Emma Forrest

#70. You have to not care whether they approve of your or not," she said when I called. "We do what we do to express ourselves, not to coincide with what others like. You're lucky if they like anything you do.

Debby Bull

#71. One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, 'Whatever you do, don't smoke'. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.

Bill Nighy

#72. I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

Philip Levine

#73. I know very well that I have no reason to feel aggrieved - I am fully aware of how lucky I am, but knowing it and still being down makes me hate myself all the more.

Jon Richardson

#74. I like to celebrate my life. I have a life that I'm really lucky to have, and so I want to make sure every minute counts and that I go on great vacations and I share my memories with people that I love and that will make me laugh and lalalalalala.

Chelsea Handler

#75. I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that seems to have led me to better places than if I had followed some career trajectory, which I wouldn't even know how to start.

Nat Wolff

#76. I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.

Dario Argento

#77. To be essential to another human being, to be vulnerable, to have another assign themselves generously and selflessly is the ultimate expression of true love, and they understood how lucky they were.

Sharon Lathan

#78. My dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know that I am no great man and am lucky to have such a woman as you.

Wild Bill Hickok

#79. I feel tremendously lucky that I am offered incredible jobs all the time to direct, but the problem that I have just personally is that there are only so many years in my life to dedicate to certain projects.

Lake Bell

#80. I feel as if I'm in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.

Ben Stein

#81. You can trust a few some of the time, and most none of the time. Feel lucky if you have even one to trust all of the time.

V.C. Andrews

#82. Every single person is a beautiful human being, and we're lucky. That's what gives you longevity. You have to love the people that you work with.

Katee Sackhoff

#83. I don't have that drive to be in this field, climbing up, doing bit parts in movies to make a big movie. But I'm lucky I get to also do acting - it's fun. I should probably just take an acting class on the weekends - that would be enough for me.

Jemima Kirke

#84. I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.

Taylor Hawkins

#85. I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

Uma Thurman

#86. I am really lucky to have Jeff. He is my best friend in the whole world, not only my brother.

Matt Hardy

#87. I have been obscenely lucky. I've got most of the things I've asked for and done well at the things I've wanted to succeed at.

M. J. Hyland

#88. I've been very lucky enough to do all kinds of movies. All the movies that I've done have been very different, and all the characters I've done have been very different. I feel very lucky to have been able to do the movies that I've done.

Dakota Fanning

#89. I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.

Dale Murphy

#90. I have absolutely no objection to growing older. I am a stroke survivor so I am extremely grateful to be ageing - I have nothing but gratitude for the passing years. I am ageing - lucky, lucky me!

Sharon Stone

#91. Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.

Graham Taylor

#92. The good news for me is that I have an amazing team behind me, and they've been with me for 20 years now - almost 20 years. And they have seen me as an actress, not necessarily just a black actress. So I have been lucky enough for them to see me that way.

Regina King

#93. You're too old to be saying to me, as you did recently, that you weren't 'interested in politics'. You're lucky that politics feels optional, something it's safe to ignore. Most people in the world have it forced on them

Hari Kunzru

#94. I have learned that when you've done your homework, once you recognize that supply and demand are totally out of whack, and you make your move, you are definitely going to get very lucky.

Jim Rogers

#95. I've been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another.

Blake Lively

#96. What most people do is they make terrific films, one in three if you're very lucky, maybe one in five. So you just have to keep on, you have to get through the bad bits.

Mike Newell

#97. Sometimes you have to be lucky, but I always say that to be lucky, you have to fight for it.

Jonas Hiller

#98. I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me.

Ethel Merman

#99. I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!

George Kennedy

#100. We're all brought up to believe that the best players show up in the biggest games, and what bigger game than the Super Bowl? I've just been blessed and very lucky to have two of my best games on that stage.

Justin Tuck