When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you're just filling them with stuff they don't need yet.

- Anna Chlumsky

I'm very conscious of the luck I've had. It's important to have this in your mind and remember it.

- Astrid Berges-Frisbey

Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.

- Alain Resnais

I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.

- Al Alvarez

Jessica Alba. I have the biggest crush on her, I can't even tell you. I met her in Vancouver when she was filming 'Good Luck Chuck.'

- Alexander Ludwig

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

- Aaron Allston

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.

- Amber Tamblyn

I think, when I was little, I was a little obsessed with anything that provided luck: Buddhas, 4-leaf clovers, heads-up pennies, even - gasp - a rabbit foot - which actually kind of disgusts me now.

- Alysia Reiner

I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.

- Antony Beevor

I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.

- Antony Beevor

To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.

- Abby Wambach

Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.

- Allan Sherman

It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo.

- Alison Moyet

I feel luck plays a vey crucial role in determining the success of the book. Marketing a book is also very important. You need to try all tricks in the trade.

- Ashwin Sanghi

I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.

- Arthur Golden

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

- Anne Tyler

Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.

- Alex Trebek

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.

- Anthony Hopkins

I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on.

- Angela Merkel

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

- Amelia Barr