I’ve been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do ‚A Cook’s Tour;‘ I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn’t already.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

I’ve been fortunate. I don’t pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we’re both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

I bear a charmed life.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

I’m lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions.

I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.

I’ve been really, really fortunate.

I’ve been very fortunate.

I’m lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.