Marjane Satrapi Quotes

I never made the choice to be an actor. It just sort of happened to me when I was a kid, for whatever reasons that are irrelevant in this moment.

For me, everything has always been an accident.

He [the historian] should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

A lot of it [success] is luck. That's a huge part of it that no one wants to talk about. You just got to be in the right place at the right time.

Modeling chose me, I didn't choose modeling.

In my life, all of the best things that have happened to me have almost invariably been accidents or fate.

I can't say that I pursued a career. I really didn't, it just sort of happened.

The life we receive is not always what we choose.

Luck has a lot to do with how your life develops.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

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

Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.

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

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.

There's certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I've ended up.

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.

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

Few people realize that luck is created.

Luck's always to blame.

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

My whole life has been decided by fate. I've never planned anything that's happened to me.

My life is a series of things that just happen.