Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes

The reality is that luck does play a part of it. It does. Ultimately it's a make or miss league.

Luck is the grand equalizer.

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

You can never predict a hit.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

So much of life is what you roll and where you land.

Luck has a lot to do with how your life develops.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.

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

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

I say the one thing about luck is you can't really count on it.

I think you end up on the lucky side, or you don't.

An actor can never plan. You never know what can work in your favor or not and then, may be the whole dynamics can change.

So much of life, so much of work, is luck.

You are much more dependent on luck than you think. People say if you want to have a good relationship, you have to work at it. But you never hear it about anything you really like, about sailing or going to soccer games.

Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

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.

Chance. It weaves through our lives like a golden thread, sometimes knotting, tangling, and breaking along the way. Loose threads are left hanging, but the in and out, the back and forth continues, the weaving goes on. It doesn't stop.

The world runs on luck.

Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.

Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?