Alastair Campbell Quotes

I'm not a 9-to-5 woman who has the same kind of lifestyle for years on end. I couldn't do it.

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

My life and career have been a big improvisation.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

My life is spontaneous and things just kind of happen.

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

There was a small point in my life in law school, right before I moved to Newark, when I didn't know what I wanted to do, and I felt so lost.

I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.

We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

There is no facet of my professional life that doesn't require or request improvisation.

I'm a little bit of a gypsy myself. I've always had jobs where I'm moving around and I'm not sure what's going to happen tomorrow or the next day.

With this crazy lifestyle, you have to think of places where you can still have your freedom.

Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

The way that I live my life is on spontaneity.

I mean, we just started, it's a new thing. We're doing this for fun and we're going to see where it goes.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

I don't have a normal life.

I used to have all these plans and think 'Ah, I have my whole life figured out', but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more.

I first got into fruit when I was a teenager, when my life was changing in every way. The first time I had a mango, at like 18, I was like, 'Where has this been my whole life?'

In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.

I had to get out of the Boston area, so I flipped a coin and said, 'Heads - Miami, tails - California. I was in my mid-20s and came out here with no training. Acting wasn't even in my mind.

I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a call that could change everything.