You go and you buy a lottery ticket. You've got just as much chance of getting struck by lightning as you do of winning the lottery.
Being an actor is like winning the lottery. It's not really about your talent, it's right time, right place, right face.
Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.
They say getting a show on the air and having it be a success, literally, the odds are like winning the lottery. For me, I've won the lottery several times, so I've been awfully lucky.
Writing books and being paid for it - it's not like winning the Lottery. You can't suddenly go, 'Yippee!' and start throwing tenners in the air. I've done pretty well out of it, but certainly not enough to say, 'Right, that's me set up for life.'
After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a bad investment. But it's fun and relatively cheap: for the price of a ticket, you buy the right to fantasize how you'd spend the winnings - much as you get to fantasize that your vote will have some impact on policy.
I look at the PGA, and it was like winning the lottery.
When we conducted focus group interviews in the first municipality in Brazil before initiating the pilot project, a woman commented: Getting an appointment in the public sector municipal health services is like "winning the lottery." I would like to make it possible for many women and men in Latin America to win the lottery and receive the type of reproductive health services they so urgently need.
Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
Being hungover is like winning the lottery, only they pay you in regret.
My decision was to go abroad, especially after winning the World Cup, and to go to Madrid was perfect. I was 100 per cent convinced of it.
Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.
She was staying. A little longer. V smiled to himself. So this was what winning the lottery felt like.
Getting a role in Harry Potter was like winning the lottery. But no one deserves an acting job.
Getting a role in 'Harry Potter' was like winning the lottery. But no one deserves an acting job.
Winning the treble was confirmation for me that joining Bayern rather than moving abroad was the right decision.