Brent Spiner Quotes

You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.

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.

I don't make long-term plans, for sure.

I've stopped making plans a long time back because they never work in my case. Now, I just take each day as it comes.

I'm the type of person, I cross the bridges once I get to 'em. I don't try to plan my life three, four months in advance, because you don't know if tomorrow's promised to you.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

I'm not good at making plans, because I never have been. I never do things with an idea of where they may wind up.

The best plan is to have no plan.

I think I've lived long enough to understand that plans really are very overrated.

You've gotta leave enough space for your actors to bring stuff to the table and whatever the weather's doing that day or what the light's like. Things can shift, and you have to be malleable. Every day is a different feeling and a change.

I don't really plan ahead very far. I have never known what I'm doing more than a few pages ahead.

You can only have a short sight because things change a lot. You can't plan what the years will bring.

I've never really had a plan. You never know what's going to happen.

My life and career have been a big improvisation.

I'm a guy that, when there's something rolling out there, the predetermined rotations might go right in the garbage can.

In this business, you can't make any plans.

Life is an art, not a science. You make it up as you go along.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion — you keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.

Life is improvisation.

Whatever future you're building, don't try to program everything.

I always tried to live up to Leo Szilard's commandment, "don't lie if you don't have to." I had to. I filled up pages with words and plans I knew I would not follow. When I go home from my laboratory in the late afternoon, I often do not know what I am going to do the next day. I expect to think that up during the night. How could I tell them what I would do a year hence?