Jim Courier Quotes

I have my dream job. If I was seven years old and you asked me what I'd want to be 30 years from now, I'd say exactly who I am. So, 'rare' and 'lucky' are the exact right words. It took a lot of hard work, and I took a weird route to get here, but man, am I grateful for it.

Many people may say that luck is important, but I think you create your own luck by working hard to ensure you don't miss opportunities.

All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond.

I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.

I could have gone professional, but I'm not giving up on my dream.

Hard work doesn't guarantee success, but it does enhance its chances.

There is no question that I was given a lot of interesting and unique opportunities growing up... But I think people often misunderstand that I work as hard and want things just as badly as anybody else.

The more I talk to people who are at a place I'd like to be at, whether its music or writing, or being a doctor or entrepreneur, sometimes you get lucky, and right away something happens. But for most people, the common denominator of success is just working really hard.

My ambitions are just to keep working hard and, when I do get on, to make an impression.

You need an immense amount of luck and perseverance to even be on the playing field for success on a grand scale.

Son, if you really want something in life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers.

You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.

A lot of people that I started out with, I don't know where they are. I guess it takes tenacity to still be doing this, and luck, but I've been very blessed.

I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.

I've been quite lucky in that I've managed to tick off a few of my dream roles, really. Beyond that, you wait for the next script to come in that will have the dream role that you don't know exists yet, I suppose.

I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.

I just want to be as successful as I can in football.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, 'shut up.' Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

Getting the call from Ridley Scott made me think that sometimes you just need to go to work.