Howard Gardner Quotes

I've never won an award for anything, and I think it's weird. I mean, that's really cool but it's strange to think you could get an award for acting. I always thought that was strange.

I'd rather be lucky than good.

It looks like I've been smart about it, but truly, I've been incredibly lucky to have the right people notice me and want to work with me.

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.

It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.

One year, I was nominated for entertainer of the year, and I didn't think I deserved it.

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.

Talent doesn't always equal success.

I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.

The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you're certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the only thing you're gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you.

People are wrong when they say that there is struggle in Bollywood. That is only when you don't have the talent. If you have talent, Bollywood comes to you.

While I am lucky to be associated with people who believe in content, all that matters is your talent and box-office results.

Real talent doesn't always win championships, like real music doesn't always win Grammys.

There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot.

I don't think you're going to get nominated every time you jump out of the box.

You see people - maybe in a frustrating fashion - that don't get embraced, when they should. You get some people who get embraced too early, and they tend to flame out, but it's really rare that someone gets lucky. It's usually a combination of a lot of talent and a lot of hard work.

Be so good they can't ignore you.

The man who said 'I'd rather be lucky than good' saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose.

Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I've been so blessed, it's hard to look back and think anything but that, so I have no disappointments.

I appreciate having been promoted for merit, on merit. And then bringing to bear whatever those extra special characteristics that all of us have.

Recognize winners. They come in all forms.

A lot of luck, and being prepared when the opportunity came. There are talented individuals out there who didn't get the break that I got. Or when the break came, they weren't ready for it.

It's hard to deny talent. If you're good, you're good.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.