William Lashner Quotes

Do as many ideas as possible. The right idea will pick you.

Behind every great idea is someone saying "It won't work"

You always measure success by what you did last. It's hard to measure that because it's something that just comes. If someone can just make a hit, they would do it everyday. But you can't make a hit that you know is a hit every day.

You never know why something works or doesn't.

A project like 'Rizzoli & Isles' is something you can't pursue. It's something that comes to you... I like to call it 'fairy dust.' And it happened without my having to do anything.

We actors are superstitious creatures. We do all the homework, and we put all of the components together, but there's always one key aspect that we're not in charge of, really, and that's magic. You are always on the lookout for where and how that magic is going to ignite.

I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

I kind of fell into acting. I was very lucky.

Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.

Every song I've written is luck, I think; it's luck - 'How did that just happen?'

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

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

Coincidence is important, the convergence of different ideas.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

Some people just come in, do it and they know it's right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going to sound. When that happens, you take it as a gift.

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.

I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it isn't. And sometimes you pay no attention to something whatsoever, and God just makes it into everything.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

No matter what I've done, what I've tried to do, everybody says it can't be done. And it's continuous across the complete spectrum of the various kind of realities that you confront with your ideas.

With luck on your side, you can do without brains.