Jules Verne Quotes

So much of life is not about whether you're good or bad, or right or wrong, or can afford or not afford - it's just about timing.

I wait for options, hoping that a space for a pass will appear at the last moment.

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

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

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

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

I'm such a profound believer that timing is everything; I would tattoo that on my arm.

I've come to learn that you can be very, very talented, but if you're not at the right place at the right time... It's a lot of luck.

I still think that luck is what a lot of the good things come from. It's simply the luck of where you are, when.

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.

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

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

Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

Certain projects find you at the right time.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.

I guess you just fall into things when to you're supposed to.

How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.

You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.

You often hear people say 'Luck is self made.' I think it is, to a certain extent; if you work hard on something, you are more likely to be lucky than if you don't. That having been said, I do believe during in my career I have been at the right place at the right time with the right people.

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.