Tommy Steele quotes

Tommy Steele quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.”
-- Tommy Steele

#Luck Quotes #Able Quotes #Show Business Quotes

“Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.”
“Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and many calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.”

Source : "The Doctrine of Chances: Or, A Method of Calculating the Probabilities of Events in Play".
“Art is in love with luck, and luck with art.”
“Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics.”
“Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.”
“I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn't likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.”
“The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.”
“In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being able still to confront us, on the continent itself, with an adversary of a stature equal to our own.”
“When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.”
“People who go into show business are screwed up.”

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