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!
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.
We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.
When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years.
I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.
As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way.
In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War.
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.
I've had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the globe, while also struggling to make sense of my experience in my own tiny world.
Action makes more fortune than caution.
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched by the feminist movement, that means everything we do is magically imbued with its agenda, but it doesn't work that way.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.
We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
I made my money turning around distressed or bankrupt companies. I did 50-some of them in my career... I started on a shoestring and eventually built up quite a fortune.
Gayness is a non-issue.
I just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us think that doctors and drugs are going to control and help us, but the reality is we're our own best doctor.
A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.
I never pay a fortune for clothes.
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
If someone builds a fortune, it belongs to him, not the government. An entitled government undermines liberty.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
