Billy Zane Quotes

The real universe has a marvellous and unique quality, inasmuch as it and only it can take us completely by surprise.

Pinchas Perry, the director of 'The Chicago 8,' offered me the role of the judge, and he did not know that, 35 years earlier, I'd played a judge in the theater production. So life has its own little twists and turns.

I've always been interested in moments of disbelief... I don't know if they possess any magic, but they do have something.

I think the universe just brings people around others they find to be interesting.

When magic happens, it just happens, brother.

Every experience has its element of magic.

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

The unknown always passes for the marvellous.

When I'm an audience member I do not want to go and see something that I already know, I want to see something that I don't know. I want to be surprised and stimulated to think about something. I want the magic. I want to be in a situation of uncertainty; that's what excites me.

Every single day I'm shocked.

The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.

I'm quite a rational person, but I'm drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction: 'Is this random, or is there something working underneath?'

We can sit around and go, okay, is there really a plan, does somebody really know what's happening, is it all planned out, because sometimes it just seems too remarkable to me the things that have happened to me.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

A lot of times, really wonderful things that have come my way have come basically out of the blue.

I like life to surprise me.

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

Where there is mystery there is power.

Life itself is so surprising, a predictable story is unsatisfying.

What's crazy about my life is that the biggest things that have happened just happen.

Life has a great deal up its sleeve.

We don't appreciate luck in life when things are going well. No matter how smart I am and how I prepare, there are things that catch you off guard.

As much as you try to organize your life, life will surprise you.