Julia Child Quotes

I love eggs. Eggs are probably one of the most versatile things we work with.

Pippin' was, I guess you can say, the break that everyone needs and you hope that you have the talent to back up the opportunity.

I know that there are a lot of people like me out there waiting to be given a break.

I've always known that if I got the right opportunity and the right system, I could be successful.

At the end of the day, the only thing I can do is keep working on it, keep giving myself chances, and it's going to happen.

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

If you have a great part, you have the opportunity to give a good performance. The greatest actors get the best parts, and the best parts make the greatest actors. There are plenty of people who are as talented, who just never got the part.

Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone.

We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.

You don't need everyone to help you. You just need one touch of favor, and you will accomplish in a split second what could have taken your whole lifetime.

Like my good friend Eminem the rapper says, you only get one shot.

To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.

You see people who get so many big opportunities, and they take them, and they're not ready.

Fortune seized at the right moment gives victory.

Some say opportunity knocks only once, that is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

I would definitely make eggs for the rest of my life if I could.

Have confidence in the young people, give them a chance, and they will surprise you.

Opportunity only gives you knockers once.

The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that's the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.

Luck is a combination of confidence and getting the breaks.

I have so many really gifted friends, actors who I thought deserved as much as I did to get an agent or a job, or deserved more, and just never made it through somehow. I've always been really fiercely tethered to that. You know, I've been very lucky. All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.

When you're hot, anything can happen.

If you've never tried, how will you ever know if there's any chance?