Rhys Ifans Quotes

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.

Chance has something to say, even how to write a good letter.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

Film line is all about chance. I don't think much, I just like to take chances.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.

If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.

Coincidence is important, the convergence of different ideas.

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

It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

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 say the one thing about luck is you can't really count on it.

You don't know what's gonna happen, so you can't really plan: you can only go with it.

Luck and misfortune are closely intertwined.

I am always living in the now, so I like what fate brings to you. That's always fun for me. To have a process and someone be like, 'How about this?' And you just grab onto that and see where it takes you.

The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.

An actor can never plan. You never know what can work in your favor or not and then, may be the whole dynamics can change.

Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents- the rest you let float by.

If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't.

Play is experimenting with chance.

There is always some accident in the best things, whether thoughts or expressions or deeds. The memorable thought, the happy expression, the admirable deed are only partly ours.

It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.

Chance is the only source of true novelty.