David Johansen Quotes

For me, everything has always been an accident.

Some things happen by accident - embrace them.

Nothing I ever did I expected to do. It just kind of happened.

The beauty about my career is that none of it was really calculated.

Nothing was planned in my career.

I never planned to become a choreographer. I never planned to become an actor. I never planned to be a director. It's all good will. I did nothing.

I never dreamt that I would do all the things that I have done. But things just happened to me all the time.

Is anything accidental?

I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

Things happen in weird, serendipitous ways.

If I look back, I think most of the things I did - the films, the books, the collaborations with these magazines - were mostly by accident.

I can't say that I wanted to be an actress, it just happened along the way. I did not even know that I would be doing modelling but that also just happened.

All the films that I did, I didn't plan them. They just came to me.

I think I've managed to Forrest Gump my way though life.

I don't believe in fate," she said at last. "But I do believe in...loopholes. I think a lot of what keeps the world going is the result of accidents — happy or otherwise — and taking advantage of these.

Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Selling potato chips was obvious, as it was a family business. When friends suggested I should try theatre, I gave it a shot. Then I did a lot of advertisements, and then movies happened.

I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.

I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked to photograph Princess Diana, and that made me more famous than I wanted. I never asked to photograph Madonna, and that pushed me to another level. There are things that just take you into the limelight.

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

Things kind of happen organically with me.

I didn't plan on being a comedian. I didn't plan on getting married and I didn't plan on having kids, but I did all those things.

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.

I feel like everything has happened naturally.