Honore de Balzac Quotes

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.

It's always the people who don't want things who get them.

The greatest thing is that usually the auditions you think are bad are the ones you get.

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

There's certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I've ended up.

Few people realize that luck is created.

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.

Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences all my life. Something told me I was meant for greater stuff. And look, I've had a baby! And I've written an opera!

I am a great believer in luck.

It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part.

Somebody up there likes me. It ain't like I've followed a well trodden trajectory.

What's happened in my career is probably fate and good luck.

I did work incredibly hard but I think there's a certain element of luck.

I'm not a big believer in fate, but, boy, I've had a lot of lucky breaks.

Timing in my life has been fortuitous.

You always need a bit of fortune in life.

It is really strange how life works, isn't it?

For most human beings, if what they want happens, it is a success. If what they could not have imagined happens, it is luck. If what nobody could foresee happens, it is a miraculous existence.

Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.

Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters.

I could never be so lucky again

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.