Gautam Rode Quotes

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

I've never guided my life. I've just been whipped along by the waves I'm sitting in. I don't make plans at all. Plans are what make God laugh. You can make plans, you can make so many plans, but they never go right, do they?

It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.

You could never plan your life in a million years.

The god of theater laughs in your face at planning. You can't plan as an actor; there's no way, because so much of it is dependent on other people's choices and decisions that you're at the whim of fate, really.

I am not very good at planning things, actually, but I believe that things happen when they need to and when they have to.

I've never really had a plan. You never know what's going to happen.

I am always living in the now, so I like what fate brings to you. That's always fun for me. To have a process and someone be like, 'How about this?' And you just grab onto that and see where it takes you.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

In this business it's difficult to make plans. I think the plans follow you and find you.

Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.

You never know what's going to happen and when it's going to happen.

If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.

The game is a game, and things happen, and you can't always execute your plan as perfectly as you'd like to.

I say the one thing about luck is you can't really count on it.

If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

Life is a school of probability

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

You don't know what's gonna happen, so you can't really plan: you can only go with it.

An actor can never plan. You never know what can work in your favour or not and then maybe the whole dynamics can change.

The reality is that luck does play a part of it. It does. Ultimately it's a make or miss league.

No, I don't have a plan. Whatever happens happens. There's never a plan.

I don't plan life. Love, marriage, or relationships can't be pre-planned. Whenever it has to happen, it will happen.

The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize and plan.