Simon Bird Quotes

I'm one of those fortunate actors who gets to work pretty much every day. I've had a run of good fortune and work with some terrific people who have hired me.

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

I feel like I have just been really, really lucky to meet some of the most successful and great actors alive today.

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!

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

If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.

There are lots of actors out there who are hugely, hugely talented and haven't got the breaks I've had.

Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.

I mean, to win a major, you've got to be a good player and you've got to get your breaks, as well, to win.

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.

I've certainly been very blessed. I can only say that I worked very hard in class and on set doing the best that I can at the moment. I was incredibly blessed with 'Battlestar'... I tried to work my little butt off just to keep up with everybody else and not too many people kicked me.

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.

I do happen to have a good life... But I also like to work. I feel like I got the brass ring and I got very lucky in this.

Writing has been handed to me on a plate.

I felt like there were so many talented people who should be getting what I have.

I got incredibly lucky, and you have to be if you want to be quite successful.

There are lot of people who speak about superstardom, but I'd like to say that it's not about any individual - it's about the opportunity.

You never know what ultimately will give traction to being a star.

I believe that reality shows are extremely important for the talented. Contestants get a platform where they can prove their talent. If they are good at what they do, their life is made. Personally, reality shows have helped me get fame and money.

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.

An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.

It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by the professionalism and generosity of everyone I have had the good fortune to work with at this awesome company.

If you do good work, you start to make a name for yourself and things can come around. Weird little happenstances happen.

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

To be allowed for the first time in your later career to play leading parts in extremely popular movies is not a situation to worry about.