Dermot Mulroney Quotes

I've worked with collage a lot. And there's this chance thing that happens - you don't always control things. Why did you find this today and not this? But you've got this thing, and you make it work. It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.

Sometimes we let life guide us, and other times we take life by the horns. But one thing is for sure: no matter how organized we are, or how well we plan, we can always expect the unexpected.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

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 whole thing about doing TV is that you never know what's going to happen. You just have to go with it and go with the flow.

There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but I've never had any talent for that. I just do things and hope for the best. Say yes, take a chance, and sometimes it's terrific and sometimes it's not.

There is no facet of my professional life that doesn't require or request improvisation.

I'm not good at making plans, because I never have been. I never do things with an idea of where they may wind up.

A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content with an impossible task: it is really impossible to properly prepare. You kind of have to start over every time.

The best plan is to have no plan.

I think I've lived long enough to understand that plans really are very overrated.

You could never plan your life in a million years.

You can have a plan, but you have to be flexible. Every day is unpredictable, and you just have to go with the flow.

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

Every time I thought I've seen every possible scenario, something else comes up. You just have to be prepared at every level.

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

I've stopped making plans a long time back because they never work in my case. Now, I just take each day as it comes.

The future has never been something that I've been able to plan. Every time I try - I don't care if it's three or four days ahead or a week ahead - it just doesn't pan out.

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

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

These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

Whatever future you're building, don't try to program everything.

We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.