There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
Chance favours a prepared mind.
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
Proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man.
I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky.
One event makes another: what we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
I didn't really want to write something about my life story. I've kind of had a pretty smooth-sailing journey.
I've had a remarkable life. I seem to be in such good places at the right time. You know, if you were to ask me to sum my life up in one word, gratitude.
I have to say, I feel really lucky. I've had a lot of great characters to play.
I definitely count my blessings. I feel like I've had such a great ride. Early on, to be able to work with some of the people I did, I feel really lucky.
When you're a comedian, and you show up on set to a job where you're not writing, and you get handed material that's as good as we do on 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine,' you just feel lucky every day.
In my early twenties, I got the basics covered. In retrospect, one of the great things about success is that I never really had to work in a factory full-time. So that's a blessing.
Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.
To be an actor takes a lot of courage, but the way I did it takes less courage. I was very lucky.
I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
I have so many wonderful people in my life. I've never had any major physical problems or an accident or anything like that. I'm a very, very lucky person, thus far, knock on wood.
An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side. To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.
I've been very fortunate and never not worked.
I'm really very lucky. I get to do an awful lot. I've been able to make an incredibly wide range of movies and work with an incredible array of people.
I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now.
Writing and playing songs is something that I've loved doing since the day I started. It's never been a chore; it's always a hobby. To be able to do that from day to day makes me believe I'm a very lucky person.
I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.
I'm just lucky to have been in the right place at the right time. Another place, another time, I wouldn't have been as successful. Society enabled me to make my money and my money should go to society.
I was working as a secretary in Manchester and thought I would always do that. Then I got this letter offering me a two-year fellowship where I could write; they would pay me a salary and give me a flat to live in. It was heaven.
