Greg Berlanti Quotes

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!

If you hang around long enough to show these people what you can do, you have a chance in this acting business.

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance.

You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.

My life has been a happy accident. Anybody who succeeds in anything should count their lucky stars, because that's the biggest element. It's not hard work; it's not necessarily talent.

England is a lucky country for me, and fortune comes only with hard work.

I'm lucky. I got a chance to play major-league baseball.

Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

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.

Yes, I've had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent.

I have worked hard in my career, but I have been lucky as well.

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

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.

People think I'm smart because Flickr was successful. I'm lucky. Maybe I'm smart, too. But, I'm lucky.

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.

Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball, and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.

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

I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.

I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there.

If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.

I had no idea that all the things in my career were going to happen. I sure didn't see it. I just know the good Lord blessed me with ability, blessed me with good eyesight and a good pair of hands, and then I worked at the rest.

Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.