Top 100 Very Fortunate Quotes
#1. I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.
Andy Goldsworthy
#2. I'm very fortunate to get paid for something I love doing.
Billy Magnussen
#3. I've been very fortunate in my art career. It's something I would never have expected.
Marcel Dzama
#4. Chemistry is one of these crazy things you can't teach or learn or you can't fake. You go in hoping it will work, hope that you will connect with the other actors. I was fortunate on 'Modern Family' and 'The Procession.' They are great people, very easy to like.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
#5. I'm very fortunate to have been raised in my family. I learned early about the importance of giving back.
Patrick Schwarzenegger
#6. I've been very fortunate. I'm doing what I love, and I'm getting away with it, you know?
Tony Bennett
#7. I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
Vince McMahon
#8. I married my best friend. And I listen! Ultimately I've been very fortunate - I understand that that doesn't happen for everybody but it happened for us and we take it very seriously.
Harry Connick Jr.
#9. To me, first and foremost, basketball is a fun sport. It is a hobby, an interest. And second, it is a profession. I feel that I am very fortunate that I can find a professional job that I really, really love.
Yao Ming
#10. I'm excited to be launching D'Leon Records to support other young talent in their development. I have been very fortunate to have been able to break through and succeed in this tough industry, and this is one of my ways of giving back.
Prince Royce
#11. There are tons of different reasons why you do TV series and why you don't, and how it'll affect your career, and all that. Without a doubt, it has always come down to the script for me. I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles.
Patrick Wilson
#12. I'm not a comedian, I'm not a stand-up and I don't come from a comedy background. I am an actor, but I've had a very fortunate foray into comedy, and it seems to have become a bit of a strength, and you can't complain when you become known for something.
Darren Boyd
#13. My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
Victoria Beckham
#14. Somebody asked me recently, 'Have you done a lot of plays?' I thought hang on. I used to do nothing but plays. I've been very fortunate that on several occasions I've had jobs where I didn't want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer - however much money you've got.
Bill Nighy
#15. I've been fortunate. I've worked in a lot of things where I had those kinds of experiences with actors who were perceived as very macho guys, everybody from Lee Marvin to Charlie Bronson to Harrison Ford to Robert Shaw.
Carl Weathers
#16. I like what I do, and I'm very fortunate now to be in a very nice place. Which is that I don't have to work anymore. So the work that I do now is purely because I really want to.
Charlize Theron
#17. I'm very lucky that people are able to say, 'Oh, that's that Moody Blues guy!' I'm very fortunate with that. That's all. Without the songs, I think, I'd just be a pretty average karaoke singer. In the end, it comes down to the songs: the strength of the songs.
Justin Hayward
#18. We just believe in what we make and we're in a very fortunate position to be able to make stuff regardless of what model that follows.
Thomas Tull
#19. Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
Baltasar Gracian
#20. In postscript let's just say that I am very fortunate cause I've gotten to work with a lot of great bands!
Jim Diamond
#21. I have been very fortunate to be a part of tours with other artists that have exposed me to new places that I've never been before. Once you discover something beautiful, you just want to keep coming back.
Sara Bareilles
#22. I'm in the very fortunate position as a young actor to not have to take the first job that comes along. I'm not motivated by money at this stage in my life, I'm motivated by work.
Martin Compston
#23. Something that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without a life of service. Over the course of my career, I've been fortunate to always encounter others who share that philosophy.
Keke Palmer
#24. I married a woman who is much better than me, I'm very fortunate to be with her and I know I'll be happy with her the rest of my life.
Jim Caviezel
#25. In Cleveland, I'm so fortunate that we're surrounded by farms with an endless variety of beautiful vegetables. For me, I always eat very tightly with the season, even if the season is only six weeks.
Michael Symon
#26. I embrace old age. Look, I'm never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I've learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I'm very fortunate, and I have my blessings.
Mark Wahlberg
#27. I have a brother who has been overseas for two tours. I've been very fortunate that he has come home safely. Whether or not you support the war, always support our soldiers.
Diana DeGarmo
#28. I've been extraordinarily fortunate that I've been able to go live a very active, stressful life. And I don't believe that my heart disease changed me for the worst.
Dick Cheney
#29. Then a woman of good character will be very attracted to you, will consider you a wonderful potential husband, even if she does not show it." Avelina had to swallow the lump that rose into her throat. "She will count herself fortunate to have secured your good opinion." He
Melanie Dickerson
#30. One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available.
Terence McKenna
#31. I feel fortunate that, by the age of 40, I had crammed in an entire political career.I had been in the Cabinet and been leader of the party, so now I can branch out into other things ... it is a very liberating feeling.
William Hague
#32. I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.
Eric Clapton
#33. My mother was a gypsy, and she had a lot of dark blood in her, and her hair was very, very thick - she couldn't even get a brush through it. So I have been very fortunate. And every time I go to cut it off, hairdressers refuse to do it.
Robert Plant
#34. I love my life. I'm very fortunate for the opportunities that I have and whatever, but I haven't got to the level where people are interested in where I walk my dog or anything like that, which is fine by me.
Jamie Murray
#35. I'm very fortunate that I have a wonderful family around me and loved ones.
Melissa Etheridge
#36. I was 16 when I quit gymnastics and decided to start acting. I started booking immediately after. I was very lucky and fortunate, but I also did the hard work. Half of it's hard work and half of it's luck. It's been working out so far. Fingers crossed for the future.
Nina Dobrev
#37. I realize I'm very fortunate to hopefully make a lot of money playing football. I don't know if I want to abuse that privilege and make myself a larger figure than I am.
Andrew Luck
#38. I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that.
Brad Thor
#39. I've been really very fortunate with the men I've been involved with. They've always really treated me very, very wonderfully. And whenever anything broke up, I was always the one to leave. So I think I've been really very, very lucky.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#40. I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
#41. Though we cannot totally change our nature, we may in great measure correct it by reflection and philosophy; and some philosophy is a very necessary companion in this world, where, even to the most fortunate, the chances are greatly against happiness.
Lord Chesterfield
#42. I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.
Gregory Corso
#43. I was very fortunate to be at a wealthy institution. I do recognize the drawbacks and limitations of the academic world but it's basically the world I grew up in and there's no way in which I would have been able to survive in the so-called real world.
Paul Lansky
#44. I write because I love to. I'm very, very fortunate to have found something that I love doing that also earns my living. But to be honest, I'd write even if I weren't being paid to.
Christopher Paul Curtis
#45. I have my own show at 28 and a Golden Globe. So, yes, I face rejection, but I've also been very fortunate and understand how fortunate I am.
Rachel Bloom
#46. Sometimes, I stay up all night reading book after book, for I have no family to object, and when I wake in the morning, slumped over a table or fallen off a chair, back aching, cold because no one thought to cover me with a blanket or tell me to come to bed, I feel very fortunate." Silence
Alex Flinn
#47. I'm very fortunate to have the privilege of working with directors like Bill Condon and Paul Thomas Anderson, who I think is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.
Rami Malek
#48. I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.
Isobelle Carmody
#49. With the Beatles, we'd been very spoiled because we had George Martin who worked for the record label we were going to be signed to. That was very fortunate, because we grew together.
Paul McCartney
#50. Botswana is actually very peaceful. It's democratic. It never was in debt. They've been fortunate, they've had diamonds.
Alexander McCall Smith
#51. Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold.
Marianne Williamson
#52. I had a good career. I've been very fortunate.
Johnny Ramone
#53. In a life filled with great good fortune of health, of creativity, of friends, living in safety and privilege with the loving partner. There was just one bit of misfortune in his life and that was that Peter Morrow seemed to have no idea how very fortunate he was.
Louise Penny
#54. Ultimately, I felt fortunate, because in many ways I did identify with aspects of being gay that were very stereotypical. I was a big theatre kid in high school, I was creative, I was very emotionally sensitive, even hypersensitive. I loved female divas.
Christopher Rice
#55. It's very surreal. It seems like everywhere I go, people always talk about 'Indiana Jones,' and I realized over the years it has made a huge impact on their childhoods ... I feel very fortunate to be a part of this.
Jonathan Ke Quan
#56. Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.
John George Nicolay
#57. I have been incredibly fortunate to be able to work with good directors and for me it's not really a plan each time I'm on a set with one of them; I think about what I can learn from them because I'm very aware that my filmmaking skills are very modest.
Sacha Baron Cohen
#58. I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.
Willie Mays
#59. We were very fortunate to have been on the scene when we were.
Cynthia Weil
#60. We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability.
Condoleezza Rice
#61. I was very, very fortunate. I knew that. I've always known that.
Kim Wilde
#62. I have been very fortunate, working a lot in TV, and have been able to dip into the film world a little bit here and there.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler
#63. I have been very fortunate in [the entertainment] business, and I am very grateful for that. I wish the same for everyone out there, especially everyone who dares to dream.
Jorja Fox
#64. I was born in Singapore, and I lived there until I was 12. I had a very fortunate upbringing.
Kevin Kwan
#65. Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we didn't have much. I had to hustle to get what I wanted ... but I had that hunger for more. I didn't always make the right choices, but I learned from my mistakes.
Curtis Jackson
#66. In acting, every day is different, and I guess it appeals to my storytelling imagination. But I've been very fortunate to get the chance to do what I want to do and earn a living from it to pay the mortgage.
Emilia Fox
#67. I was very fortunate to have some great mentors. A father that was always in my life set the example every day at home. Everybody asks me, 'What was your role model?' My role model slept 20 feet from me every night. I could always go talk to him and ask him questions no matter what it was about.
Larry Fitzgerald
#68. I suppose there's a lot of people that've got a better life than me. But I don't know, I feel very fortunate and very blessed.
Ozzy Osbourne
#69. Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.
Mitch Kapor
#70. I've been very, very fortunate. I never had to work for a living.
Joe Torre
#71. My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.
Brad Pitt
#72. I've been very fortunate in the things I've had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the same types of memories as everyone else.
Alfonso Ribeiro
#73. I am a sinner, and I consider myself very fortunate to suffer something for the name of Jesus Christ.
Joan Antidea Thouret
#74. I feel very fortunate to have my ears. I'd share them with everybody but I only have two to go around.
Ronnie Montrose
#75. Sometimes I think I don't need a vacation because I do what I like to do. I am very fortunate!
Enric Sala
#76. Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but in martial arts, music, scuba diving, and in my academic education.
Frederick Lenz
#77. I think I'm very fortunate to be born in America. And lucky to be able to have lived and had the opportunity to do what I want to do.
Ralph Lauren
#78. At Sir-Tech I went through the ranks, almost like an apprenticeship. I was very fortunate. The industry was smaller then, and I was able to work alongside some amazing game designers.
Brenda Brathwaite
#79. Take hints from other women in the office. We are very fortunate to be in a generation where there are a lot of older women in the office. Take a look at what they're wearing.
Sarah Lafleur
#80. I love my wife and I know she loves me. We're best friends. We're just lucky to have found each other. It takes a lot of work but I just feel very blessed that I found the right person. It's a very fortunate situation and not everyone has that.
Harry Connick Jr.
#81. I really consider myself very fortunate over the years to have the experiences that I had and to be able to come out on top tonight means the world. It's been a long road and it's a lot of hard.
Rob Mariano
#82. People who work for me know that family comes first. And I'm fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don't have to live two separate lives.
Kamala Harris
#83. Very few people have a lot of time to dedicate to one hobby. I was fortunate to have started so young, because when you're young you have nothing but time. Hours and hours to burn up on something as silly as a movie.
Robert Rodriguez
#84. I think good artists know when they're on a roll, and they recognize when lightning is striking. It's a very fortunate thing to have that inspiration and not to overanalyze it or mess with it; you just follow it if you love what you do.
Johnny Marr
#85. There we were, a small bunch of rather bright and fortunate young people, thinking ourselves somehow special and exceptional, but really very naive.
Fritz Leiber
#86. You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean ... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.
Oliver Platt
#87. I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told.
Jehane Noujaim
#88. I've been very fortunate to dodge a nickname throughout my entire career. I've never had one.
Jimmie Johnson
#89. I'm very fortunate to be doing what I dreamed of, what I love. So few people get that opportunity. So while people continue liking what I write, I'm going to happily continue.
Michael Robotham
#90. I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.
Val Kilmer
#91. I feel very fortunate, I've been exposed to a lot of different cultures. If I wasn't from a multi-ethnic background, I wouldn't have had these great experiences. And one of the things that makes me a good actor is life experience.
Navi Rawat
#92. I've never had a day job. I've been very fortunate.
Shane West
#93. When I was younger, I had an older brother a year and a half older than me, so we always had each other, and I felt very fortunate in that regard.
Rib Hillis
#95. I'm just lucky. I do have very clear memories of childhood. I find that many people don't, but I'm just very fortunate that I have that kind of memory.
Beverly Cleary
#96. Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here.
Rick Danko
#97. I've been very fortunate - You only can do what you're offered, you know?
Jon Voight
#98. You have the massive world that was created by Marvel, and then you have these very intimate actors around you. There was as much character work on this as there would be on a little independent film. So, I felt very fortunate in that sense.
Chris Hemsworth
#99. I am very fortunate having the job that I do and I want to do it for as long as possible.
Kevin Pietersen
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