Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

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

Fortune smiles on some, and lets the others go free.

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.

Money does not choose people.

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

The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich.

Luck is the grand equalizer.

I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.

There's always luck involved in things, luck is involved in life; you're born a certain way, you're born in a certain location, you're born - country, there's always luck. And some people disagree that there's no such thing as luck, well, I'll take them on anytime you want.

I think luck is a big part of people who are successful in L.A.

The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference.

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

Don't get me wrong: I think that everyone should put forth an effort to do better, but let's face it, some of us are just plain luckier than others.

I was thinking about how fleeting and precious life is. Life is also arbitrary. For example, the choices that you make, the luck of being born into the right bed, to parents who support and help you and who love you. That doesn't always happen - and then, what happens when it doesn't?

The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

One must never forget that life is unfair. But sometimes, with a bit of luck, this works in your favour.

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

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called 'My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business.' A publisher came to me and said, 'Write a book,' so I did. I wanted to call it 'Everybody Else Has Got a Book.'

There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.

I am a great believer in luck.

I was very lucky - it wasn't a question of being wealthy; my father was just extremely lucky with the couple of jobs he got. So we got a chance to travel when nobody else could travel.

I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time.