Jean Smart Quotes

My whole career - I have been really lucky.

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 just lived it and did my own thing without looking over my shoulder. I think I'm very lucky, considering when I started everything, and the fact that I have a masters in music, and I've always worked in music, and that's what I wanted to do.

Getting into television was a total fluke.

I have been very lucky to find something I am good at and can make money at... Playing with Bruce was the embodiment of everything that a little kid could dream about.

I feel lucky to be doing TV right now because I get another chance every day.

I've been incredibly lucky. I know what it's like to be an unemployed actor, to beat the bricks. I've been in the right place at the right time.

By late 1953, going to New York on vacation, I had lined up several Time Inc. interviews - and what they did was give me a lifelong appreciation of the importance of luck in getting a job.

I thought my first few jobs would just be off, off, off, off, off broadway. And by chance and how the world works, I ended up on a TV show instead.

I always call myself the luckiest actor in the world because I made a living solely as a performer from the time I left home at 17 years old.

If you looked at my resume in the years leading up to Flickr, I worked in a dive shop in landlocked Arkansas; I was a starving artist. I just arrived at the thing I love to do accidentally.

I've had an enormously privileged working life.

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

I've gotta be the only father begging his son to leave a six-figure job to go play in a rock n' roll band!

Somebody up there likes me. It ain't like I've followed a well trodden trajectory.

I was blessed to get the contracts I had.

He didn't have to worry about the music, because he wasn't doing any of it. Eazy was a blessed dude.

I could sit here and say, 'What would have happened if I hadn't made that crazy television show, if I hadn't made those crazy movies?' Well, I'd be back in Canada working at Dairy Queen.

I've been very fortunate in the work I've been getting.

I know I'm going to lose friends, and I'm going to go on the road less traveled with less people. But at the end of the day, I'm not trying to make friends; I'm trying to make the most money possible.

I am somebody who is very lucky. 'Kaanta Laga' just fell into my lap and even 'Baby Come Naa.'

When I left school I was meant to do my law degree but I was lucky to fall into something I love.

I was lucky to be passionate about a field that was full of opportunity.

I'm willing to role the dice with my career to be different.

If I could have written a script of how I wanted my career to be, I couldn't have done it any better.