Eliza Coupe Quotes

Nothing ever goes as planned in China.

I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

What you think is going to be a big break or opportunity can sometimes turn into the opposite, and vice versa.

It's something you hope doesn't happen. When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.

I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.

Good filmmakers make bad films; it happens.

… minor incidents—the kind you can never really foresee—combine to lower the general level of performance, so that one always falls short of the intended goal.

I love everybody at TNT, and they were totally behind 'Trust Me.' I totally loved that show. I feel like it should have had more life.

As far as I'm aware, you can't tell if something is going to be successful. Brilliant scripts often don't get picked up, and terrible ones do all the time!

I was so successful in Cleveland, and we moved to Los Angeles, and there was nothing for me to do. All of a sudden, from being a success, I was a has-been at 13.

Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.

I've had many songs where I've gone, 'Oh, my God, this song is going to be huge!' but it wasn't the right artist, or something just didn't happen. It didn't make the song any worse. It just didn't line up. That does happen.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.

When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

You were not in control You had no visibility: maybe there was a car in front of you, maybe not.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

The law of unintended consequences, far more than the Constitution, is what governs the modern presidency.

I came prepared to treat with a regular government and have had to do with a mob and mob leaders.

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.