Elizabeth Taylor Quotes

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

Life sort of works out the way it works out.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.

My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.

Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience.

I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.

For me, everything has always been an accident.

I'd love to claim that what I have done in my life is of my doing, but it's not of my doing at all. I've blown around in the wind like a mad thing, influenced by this and that - like a piece of paper: like the boy in that scene in 'American Beauty' watching a piece of paper blowing hither and thither.

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.

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

I didn't want to escape my life and become a big actress and live my dreams. That was never the way it was; it was just these amazing opportunities that happened.

I respond very easily to outside events. One's life is a matter of chance. Nothing that you've arranged for yourself works out.

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

Things happen in weird, serendipitous ways.

So much of life is not about whether you're good or bad, or right or wrong, or can afford or not afford - it's just about timing.

If something is meant to be, then it will be.

Never say never. When love happens, it just happens. The industry is full of nice people, and there are no rights and wrongs.

I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream.

It's funny. You travel all over the world, and you wind up with a guy from your hometown.

You always need a bit of fortune in life.