AnnaLynne McCord Quotes

I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life.

I mean, I always feel incredibly lucky to get a job.

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.

I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now.

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

I just thank God that I didn't grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create ways to make it happen.

I've been extremely lucky to be a part of these really great shows that have gotten so much attention.

I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

Those of us who have been economically successful cannot forget those who have not.

Where else can a guy like me make it? Blind and poor---only in America.

I didn't grow up with a lot of money, but I grew up with a lot of opportunities that many people don't have.

It's a blessing to be an NBA player and to be in a position to help other people.

I was blessed to get the contracts I had.

I've received enough blessings for a lifetime in terms of my employment.

I grew up so poor and now I have an opportunity to provide for my family in a way that I never imagined. I take that in consideration and try to exploit every single opportunity because when it's over it's over, there are no redos.

I am fortunate.

I was just a kid. I had nothing to my name but I was still happy. But I was also given a chance to pursue my dreams, have an education.

Lucky to have been where I have been

I've been way too blessed. Had too much fun, too many rewards.

In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income.

I think that Phish has been a band, we've all had- I've had a great life growing up and everybody in my band's had a really good life, none of us have got anything to complain about at all.

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

America has been very, very good to me.

It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by the professionalism and generosity of everyone I have had the good fortune to work with at this awesome company.

A lot of people around me were really staggeringly rich, which I never have been. I walked in between the raindrops of real money, but I've stayed happy.