One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.
I think that, certainly, most of my operatic roles are in German. I think it happened because, of course, I was lucky in that I was invited to sing, first of all, my operatic debut in Berlin at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, which was West Berlin at the t...
My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.
With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was a busy woman - but she found 10 minutes to come and sit on my bed with a book.
I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.
I'm one of those few actresses who works all the time, and even though I haven't done a show that literally puts me on some kind of map - as in, that's how I'm known and that's how I'll always be known - I'm very lucky.
I miss my kids sometimes and that can get me down when I've been away working, but then I wake up and recognize how incredibly lucky I am. Spending time being down is less time out there achieving and enjoying.
You look at most artists, the arc of their career, there's a definite decline at the end. And that decline could set in at any time. In your 50s, or your 60s and 70s if you're lucky. Time goes by fast, and you've got to be busy all the time.
'Narnia' has opened my eyes to a lot of things. I feel lucky that I'm able to travel; I'm not stuck in my hometown, meeting the same kind of girls and saying hi to the same people, week after week. There are so many interesting, intelligent girls out...
Annie: ...Go Ahead. Say it. Max: Say what? Annie: No, say it. You we're right, your way was faster. Max: Ah, I got lucky with the lights.
Detective Murphy: Look at these ugly bastards. Fat Thug: I don't feel good. Detective Murphy: You're a cop-killer. You're lucky to be feeling anything below the neck.
Mr. Goodkat: Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest in Monte Carlo and came in third; that's a story.
Slevin: I have ataraxia. Lindsey: Ataraxia? Slevin: It's a condition characterized by freedom from worry or any other pre-occupation really.
Slevin: How did you find out about us? Mr. Goodkat: I'm a world-class assassin, fuckhead. How do you think I found out?
Lindsey: Ironic. Slevin Kelevra: I know, I don't even gamble. Lindsey: No, I mean the mobster having a gay son. That's ironic.
Yupa: [about Kushana's arm] An insect did that? Kushana: Yes, and whatever lucky man becomes my husband shall see far worse than that.
David: You know, we didn't call for any TV repair. TV Repairman: Well, that just makes it a lucky day for both of us! [smiles, followed by silence]
Jerry: Have I got things to tell you! Joe: What happened? Jerry: I'm engaged. Joe: Congratulations. Who's the lucky girl? Jerry: I am!
Luke Skywalker: Boy, it's lucky you have these compartments. Han Solo: I use them for smuggling. I never thought I'd be smuggling myself in them. This is ridiculous.
[Wyatt Earp has just found out that the devil in a play was performed by a woman] Wyatt Earp: Well, I'll be damned. Doc Holliday: You may indeed, if you get lucky.
Wizard of Oz: You people should consider yourselves lucky that I'm granting you an audience tomorrow instead of 20 years from now.
