Michelle Rodriguez Quotes

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.

I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.

The beauty of the unexpected and unknown, and it's certainly very tantalizing for me as an actor. Other actors can't deal with that; they want to know, but then they make choices and decisions with that knowledge because that knowledge gives them forethought, and they can think about how they want to play something that takes away spontaneity of what they could be doing.

Who knows? Maybe years from now I'll be on a ranch in Colorado with 10 kids. The whole point of life is to experience a little bit of everything, and I think it's better when there are a few surprises thrown in.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

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.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

Los Angeles survives on that which is unpredictable. The unexpected courses through its very veins.

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

In 1965, I was teaching a seminar on freedom when I told my students that the ultimate freedom lay in casting a dice to decide what to do. They were so shocked and fascinated that I knew I had to write the book.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

I thought I never wanted to be on TV. I was dead wrong. I'm almost always dead wrong about the things I think I want, vs. when I just go with the flow, I'm always happy where I end up.

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

I am happiest when I don't know what's coming next.

Change is terrifying for people who feel immune to it by virtue of status, divine appointment, or imagined irreplaceability.

Many times in life, we say we want change but are then terrified when the opportunity for it arrives.

Give up security as an ideal. Anyone who promises security is misbranding his political, social, and economic goods ... If you insist on being cheated, buy gold bricks or perpetual motion machines. It is now clear that if you live at all, you will live dangerously, not only during the instant crisis but for all our lives

I never want anything to be too predictable.

I like to keep my options open. I'm known for changing my mind.

I do like the idea that tomorrow I might find out that I'm going to be doing something that is completely unknowable today. I think it forces you to live in the moment in a very good way.

I like when people don't know what to expect.

I don't like to let people know where I'm going to end up, and I don't personally like to know where I'm going.