Eric Bana Quotes

Many people may say that luck is important, but I think you create your own luck by working hard to ensure you don't miss opportunities.

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.

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.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.

But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.

The harder you work the luckier you get.

There are so many actresses who struggle for years to get where I am. It's luck that's worked for me more than hard work.

If you don't meet luck halfway with really hard work, luck won't get you all the way there.

You've got to work hard and have luck. Luck only enters in if you do work hard.

People talk about overnight successes, and ultimately, there's a certain amount of, you want to call it luck or fortune or good fortune, or whatever, but when your moment arrives, you have to have been at a point where you paid your dues, or done your 10,000 hours or have the requisite talent or whatever.

Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.

I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.

Success is very much the intersection of luck and hard work.

Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.

You don't get money unless you have a lot of talent, which I don't have, or you work hard, which is what I do. We don't have any golden touch here.

I'm not a believer of luck. I think opportunity and hard work becomes luck.

If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.

I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.

Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.

The big talent is persistence.

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!