Pastoral Resources

I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.

You can't just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.

So, it takes a lot of chance and luck. I mean I was lucky enough to get in the program where people with the same skills never made it to the program. So keep trying.

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day.

I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.

Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.

Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.

Luck is the residue of design.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

No one has as much luck around the greens as one who practices a lot.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

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 decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.