Steven Knight Quotes

I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way.

And luck? I've always said about Dizzy Dean that if the roof fell in and Diz was sitting in the middle of the room, everybody else would be buried in the debris and a gumdrop would drop into his mouth.

You are an Englishman, and have subsequently drawn the greatest prize in the lottery of life.

Luck always plays a part for everyone, whether they want to admit it or not. I was very lucky, and I know it.

Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.

I don't think I could ever describe myself as unlucky because people would look at me, playing football for a living, and say: 'Are you winding me up?'

I'm a guy who's had great good fortune in his life. And everything has kind of gone in my direction.

No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.

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

I think I'm lucky in life and not just in football. I was very fortunate to play for a great organization and a great team that was really good near the end of my career.

My friends all tell me I was born with a horseshoe up my butt.

I've been lucky in life, that's for sure, but it all started with being born in the greatest country in the world - New Zealand.

How easy 'tis, when Destiny proves kind, With full-spread sails to run before the wind!

I've been very blessed, I think, or what do you call it... mmm... lucky to get at this stage what I have. It's not like I've come from acting school and done work at an academy or something. I feel I've been given a very huge chance and opportunity.

An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him...He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate.

As good luck would have it.

You can't imagine how much good luck is involved in winning, but all of a sudden, you get in a situation where every break goes your way, every call goes your way, every ball that rolls around drops in instead of out. It feels magical.

I got very lucky that some of the things that I wanted to work did work. Not because I knew what I was doing, just through dumb luck, it just looked beautiful and sounded great and captured some magical mood. And you just have to hope that you get lucky when you do big things like making a movie, or something.

I've been lucky. I'll be lucky again.

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast.

You is born lucky, and it's better to be born lucky than born rich, cause if you is lucky you can git rich, but if you is born rich and you ain't lucky you is liables to lose all you got.

Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.

Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.

It's better to be lucky than good.

It is better to be lucky than good, but of course appropriate to aspire to both.