Richard E. Grant Quotes

I always try to plan things out, but they never work out the way I expect.

Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.

Some projects go as you hope or imagine, and some change or reveal themselves in a different way; it depends.

I think expectations are sometimes dangerous things. I think the only thing you can be sure of is that it won't go to plan. I think that's the only thing that's definite.

I'm used to things not coming in the packages you expect.

You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

I'm not somebody who plans. There were times I planned a lot in my life, and it never turns out how you plan it. So I think it's important not to. I'm a very spontaneous person.

The idea that you have a vision of what you're supposed to be, or going to be, or where your kids are going to be - and that that doesn't work out - is always going to be something that's going to affect people and move people.

You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out.

You never know how things are going to turn out in a movie. You can imagine a scene one way, and it can turn out to be completely the polar opposite of what you expected. You just have to roll with the punches.

It's something you hope doesn't happen. When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.

We cannot assume that past successes will insure future successes.

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

One must not expect anything in these times, but be ready for everything.

If it comes as a constant surprise each and every time something unexpected occurs, you're not only going to be miserable whenever you attempt something big, you're going to have a much harder time accepting it and moving on to attempts two, three, and four.

In this business, you can't make any plans.

I always say expect the unexpected!

It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be turned on its head. Everything someone assures me to be true might not be. Every pillar of belief the world rests on may or may not be about to explode. Most things don't stay the way they are very long. Knowing this, however, has not made me cynical. Cynical means believing that good isn't possible; and I know for a fact that good is. I simply take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.

Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.