The Lucky One Quotes

#1. Honestly, of the two of us, I was the lucky one.

Nicholas Sparks

#2. People have these weird ideas about artists being romantic, generous people, and sometimes I feel like an asshole, a selfish kid, a brat, the lucky one, because I get to do this and it's how I make my living.

Nate Lowman

#3. 'The Lucky One' features a young concentration camp survivor named Peter Rashkin - who's about the age my dad was when he started at CBS - working at the Oyster Bar, trying to acclimate to his new country and outrun the memories of the daily he left behind.

Jenna Blum

#4. I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.

Eugene Ormandy

#5. My money's riding on this dark horse, baby My heart is sayin' it's the lucky one And its true color's gonna shine through someday If we let this Let this dark horse run

Amanda Marshall

#6. I'm the lucky one. I didn't think that I would ever want someone to have the kind of power over me that you hold. I know my future is going to be amazing because you're going to be by my side; and with you, everything is better.

Aurora Rose Reynolds

#7. Then babe, I'm the lucky one because with you, I'm not settin' shit aside. And with me, I think you already get without really knowin' that you always will.

Kristen Ashley

#8. Why was I the lucky one getting haunted by the gangster of Christmas past?

Rachel Van Dyken

#9. I was the lucky one because I was protected by my youth. Je pouvais oublier. I still had the luxury of forgetting. He did not.

Khaled Hosseini

#10. I've had this unbelievable amount of good fortune and I'm just so thankful for it. But at the same time I feel exceptionally guilty. I have so many friends who are talented graduates of Juilliard and are exceptional actors and I'm the lucky one that somehow got such a fortunate break.

Matthew Gray Gubler

#11. The rest of 2012's big winners are romances, all but one (The Lucky One, by Nicholas Sparks) of the sexed-up genre now known as mommy-porn.

Stephen King

#12. And she thinks she is the lucky one because she got to escape

Ed Brubaker

#13. ' The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his books because they're true, but because they ought to be true.

Roger Ebert

#14. I'm the lucky one, Tara. I have you; I have Nathan. I have the perfect life. Thank you.

Jaci Burton

#15. Dying for someone isn't the hard thing. The man that dies escapes. Plain and simple. Game over. End of pain. Alina was the lucky one. Try living for someone. Through it all-good, bad, thick, thin, joy, suffering.

Karen Marie Moning

#16. My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.

Jenna Blum

#17. For a minute there, I thought I stood a chance. But I guess in the end, Mitchell will still be the lucky one.

Piper Shelly

#18. But if I had to pick another person for her, I'd have to say you, Jess, since I hold you in such high regard. Yes, you would be a good match, but I am the lucky one this time! - Bryan Gifford

Maggie Brendan

#19. People have died playing this?" gasped Riley.

Zayne grinned and replied, "Uh huh."

"Only eight," said Estelle. "One in the last decade."

Zayne said, "Hope you're not the lucky one today.

E.E. Martin

#20. You're the lucky one. Otherwise you'd know there's a pleasure to be had from boredom. The best kind of pleasure: it means you've got nothing to worry about.

Meredith Duran

#21. Maybe that's what love meant, both people thinking they were the lucky one.

Meera Syal

#22. Maybe she was the lucky one, I thought, a woman
who had divested herself of both future and past. No dreams, no
standards, a woman who smoked and drank and slept with men like
Sergei, men who were spiritually what came up out of the sewers when
it rained.

Janet Fitch

#23. I think I am talented - but I also think I'm very lucky.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

#24. God does not deem you to be lucky or unlucky ... you're mindset does.

Robert Kiyosaki

#25. You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel.

Ivar Giaever

#26. I can shoot off my big mouth and write my shows and run my shows, and I can recognize how lucky I am because my position is rare and my position is privileged.

Jenji Kohan

#27. I'd never managed anyone before, so I don't have a lot of experience. But I'm lucky - I have a lot of team members who have a really honest relationship with me.

Ben Silbermann

#28. You need lucky breaks to be successful.

Richard Branson

#29. England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.

Salman Rushdie

#30. Lucky for you, since you're the most dangerous man I've ever met. A
sane woman would run away from you, not toward you.

Alyssa Day

#31. I want to see a doctor," I said.
He beamed. "But you've already seen one. Lucky Chang has M.I).s and Ph.D.s from every school between Seoul and Pusan. You were treated by the most capable surgeon to ever come out of Korea."
"I want to see a less capable doctor.

Yongsoo Park

#32. I don't care about the weight. You know, I'm lucky; I'm one of those people - I can eat donuts, whatever, and I just get fat.

Louis C.K.

#33. A wave of intense happiness washed over me, and I told myself to carry this moment as a talisman of a time in my life when I was both truly content and lucky enough to realize it.

Heather Cocks

#34. I'm a theater guy at heart; I love the theater. I was lucky enough to spend a good decade and a half in the New York theater community.

Thomas Sadoski

#35. The strange thing is, if I was speaking to drama students about the thing that you should do if you're lucky enough to know or to meet the character that you're playing, I'd say, 'It's obvious: you quiz them diligently about their experience.'

Rhys Ifans

#36. Yeah, but before anything, I think in 6 years somehow I've grown up to have a beautiful home, 2 beautiful stepchildren, a beautiful husband, my family is healthy and happy. I'm financially ok and I do what I love for a living. That's what I think, and I think god, how did I get so lucky.

Angelina Jolie

#37. If you're an alcoholic or a drug addict or something, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we're lucky we pull ourselves back. We all have that in us.

Anthony Hopkins

#38. I'm sorry. (Valerius) It's okay. We all have scars. I'm just lucky most of mine are on the outside. (Tabitha)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#39. The custom of giving presents on New Year's Day is as old as the time of the Romans, who attached superstitious importance to it, and thought the gifts brought them a lucky year.

P.H. Ditchfield

#40. I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.

Kate Walsh

#41. I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.

Felix Baumgartner

#42. It's nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I'm incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I'm sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though.

Neil Patrick Harris

#43. Lion Capital also nominated one of its founding partners, Lyndon Lea, to American Apparel's board in place of another nominee, Gene Montesano, the founder of Lucky Brand Jeans, whose name the hedge fund is withdrawing.

Anonymous

#44. I'm lucky enough to say my day job is acting. I cut my teeth as a theater actor and playwright in New York.

Christopher Denham

#45. '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

#46. How did I get so lucky to meet you?

Kenya Wright

#47. People don't really have much of a choice when the heart falls. I'm lucky enough that mine just so happened to fall for you, Misty." - Dylan to Misty in, When the Heart Falls

Kimberly Lewis

#48. If you're lucky enough to live without want, it's a natural impulse to be altruistic to others.

Moutasem Algharati

#49. I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo.

Megan Smith

#50. I have been very lucky for most of my adult life to be working as an actor.

Josh Hopkins

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

Evans G. Valens

#52. I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention.

George Clooney

#53. Always assume that a lucky hit will not be repeated.

Mason Cooley

#54. Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. Lucky is he who has been able to understand the causes of things Virgil, Georgics, Book 2

Robert Galbraith

#55. I really have been lucky because I've always had a very healthy attitude to my body.

Lily James

#56. I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

Mandy Patinkin

#57. I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.

Rick Mercer

#58. I guess I'd rather be lucky than good.

Mark Martin

#59. Ah, relationships. If he was lucky, Luke thought, he would never have another one.

Poppy Z. Brite

#60. People need meaning as much as they need air. Lucky for us, we can give meaning to each other for free. Just by being alive.

Daniel H. Wilson

#61. We play make-believe and dress up for a living. One goes, one doesn't go, whatever. I don't understand how you can get bitter or jaded. We're just so lucky to get to do this.

Michael Mosley

#62. I think that I have this core group of fans that fell in love with the character I played on Buffy and now they're following me to everything I do. They're very dedicated and loyal. I'm very lucky.

Amber Benson

#63. I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.

Laura Donnelly

#64. I've been very lucky that I've never had cellulite. My body was always firm.

Sofia Vergara

#65. And when you grow up one day," her mother would always add, "you might be lucky enough to be shot by someone you love.

Carolyn Cohagan

#66. Venice, Italy, is one of my favorite cities, a place I've been lucky enough to visit twice.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#67. My bag was as light as my happy-go-lucky heart.

Tove Jansson

#68. You want me to invite him to dinner."
"I want you to invite him to dinner," she agreed.
"You know," he said, "most gay men don't have mothers who are this enthusiastic about their love lives."
"That's probably true," she said. "You're one of the lucky ones.

Matthew Haldeman-Time

#69. The lucky ones are the people like your husband there. The ones who find work that means something to them. That they can really put their heart into, however foolish it might look to other people.

Michael Chabon

#70. In many ways, I'm incredibly lucky to have been born with my impairment and that it's visible. It means my path has been predictable.

Stella Young

#71. How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

A.A. Milne

#72. Lucky's gut churned with dread. I couldn't have told them anything about Lick, about her secret meeting with Grunt. Alpha would have thrown her out - or killed her. I just hope I made the right decision.

Erin Hunter

#73. Luck always plays a part for everyone, whether they want to admit it or not. I was very lucky, and I know it.

Larry David

#74. I used the aspects of being a woman to my advantage, but I worked for myself, not a big corporation, so I was lucky to have the freedom to behave however I liked.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#75. When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.

John Cage

#76. I'm lucky to have parents who used to be bodybuilders! They help me keep fit by going to the gym and training with me. I'm also addicted to Cardio Barre classes and hiking.

Janel Parrish

#77. We've had a problem finding a vocalist. We have not been lucky yet to find the one. I think the problem is that the three of us have such a pedigree of vocalist, that if we come out with someone that's not good we'll obviously be slated!

Peter Hook

#78. I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.

Samantha Bond

#79. I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.

Arthur Hailey

#80. Most people who have LLI do end up going crazy, Sofia ... unless they have a high enough IQ to handle it. You're one of those lucky few.

Bella Forrest

#81. We've been really lucky. We've gotten a lot of airplay over the years. I guess people keep requesting our songs on the radio, because Lord knows I don't do a whole lot to promote myself.

Bob Seger

#82. How shall I sum up my life?
I think I've been particularly lucky.

Audrey Hepburn

#83. I really enjoy acting, and whether it's TV or films, I feel lucky to be doing it at all. In the end, I'd love to do films, but I'm not going to work just to do work. I only want to do something that I feel right about.

Amanda Bynes

#84. And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.

Alan Blinder

#85. 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

#86. I eat excellent bread, clean meat, good crisp veggies, organic fruits and nice wine and cheese. It is one of the things I am truly grateful for. I'm not kidding. You can't ask a single mother of three working two jobs for minimum wage to eat that way. I am lucky.

Rachael Taylor

#87. In Heaven, I believe my dad is somewhere doing something nice. I feel I've been too lucky to travel this far without somebody guiding me.

Katherine Jenkins

#88. I can see that you're in need of an accomplice," Thorne said, straightening his jumpsuit. "And lucky for you, I happen to be a criminal mastermind."
She glowered at him. "Go away."
"That's a difficult request in this situation.

Marissa Meyer

#89. I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.

Christopher Nolan

#90. Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.

Walter Darby Bannard

#91. I've been lucky. I don't for a minute take for granted the good fortune I have had. You don't like to get ideas above your station, especially a boy from the south side of Glasgow.

Tony Curran

#92. It's very unique. When you have someone who's lucky to get a minute in a game come up and tell you how you can be better when he's two years older than you, it's such a selfless act. Everyone is willing to tell you how to get better.

Christopher Page

#93. It's lucky I was there. Then again, who am I kidding? I'm in most places at least once, and in 1943, I was just about everywhere.

Markus Zusak

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

Chris Hillman

#95. Life is like a Ferris wheel, going 'round and 'round in one direction. Some of us are lucky enough to remember each trip around." From: Yesterday - A Novel of Reincarnation

Samyann

#96. Actually, I was lucky enough; I was a heavyweight, so making weight for me was never that much of a problem in high school. Now, it would just be near impossible, because I'm a little heavier.

Alex Mack

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

Mackenzie Astin

#98. I was lucky Mozart was not eligible this year.

Maurice Jarre

#99. Well, Henry, if I were you I wouldn't worry", said the lawyer. "My belief is that your boy's born lucky, and in the long run that's better than to be born clever or rich.

W. Somerset Maugham

#100. If you want to be lucky, do your homework.

Jim Rogers