Viggo Mortensen Quotes

Sometimes you need luck to score.

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

Obviously, you have to have some luck on your side to be successful.

You cannot underestimate the value of luck in success in life. And I've really learned to appreciate that.

You know, there's a lot of luck involved in anybody's success.

Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

I'd always rather be lucky than smart.

I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.

Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.

I am a great believer in luck.

My life has been a happy accident. Anybody who succeeds in anything should count their lucky stars, because that's the biggest element. It's not hard work; it's not necessarily talent.

I did work incredibly hard but I think there's a certain element of luck.

You always need a bit of fortune in life.

I'd rather have luck on my side than anything else.

Sometimes in life, things just fall in to my lap. I'm very blessed that way.

I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?

I'd rather be lucky than good.

I guess I got lucky with my sound.

Few people realize that luck is created.

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.

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.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

The theme of luck comes up a lot. It's something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren't lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I've always been fascinated by that.