Rosamund Pike Quotes

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

I had thought up the title, 'The Good Luck of Right Now,' several years ago. I had no idea what it meant or what the book would be about but I thought, 'Someday I'm going to write a book with that title.'

I was meant to be a composer. I was meant to meet my wife and have our three children. There were a number of factors that led to all of that happening, which, if you mapped it out, you would say, 'God, a lot had to go right for all of those things to line up.'

Life, and the world, sometimes just kinda click, and things just happen. You're chasing it, but it finds you at the same time.

Sometimes I think your life and mine are under the protection of some supreme being or fate , because, after many years of parallel thought, we find ourselves in the positions we now occupy.

I didn't choose Paris. I like to think that the city chose me.

I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.

I remember someone telling me that when he saw the back of a woman's head, he knew that was the woman he was going marry. I laughed that away as silly talk. But I guess when a relationship has to happen, it happens seamlessly. Your partner just walks into your life.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

I still think that luck is what a lot of the good things come from. It's simply the luck of where you are, when.

I didn't choose BYU, I like to think it chose me.

I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator in all of them.

Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

Certain projects find you at the right time.

So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.

Things tend to come when they are meant to come. I know that sounds kind of like spiritual and cheesy, but I think things come when they're meant to come.

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

When you look back, I think things are as they are meant to be. Timing is very important.

In some strange way, this was meant to be.

I don't believe in coincidence.

I feel like everything has happened naturally.

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?'

There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.

It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part.