Leo Kottke Quotes

I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.

I like things to be unpredictable.

... when I left the stage door and sought my orientation among real people I was in a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

I don't know where I see myself next month let alone five years. My whole life is last minute. I enjoy the spontaneity of it; I like not knowing what I will do next or whether I will be in the country next week. I just enjoy being around a creative environment.

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

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

I never knew when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to a kid's house, then of all a sudden I would just stick out my thumb and hitchhike across three states.

I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.

There's a big difference between me and other YouTubers - a lot of them have big, concrete plans. I'm still this weird chicken with my head cut off. I don't know what I want to do next and haven't known that since I started.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

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

I am more of a surprise kind of guy. I love to find out as I go.

Adventure is just bad planning.

The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom.

The best plan is to have no plan.

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

You never know what I'm gonna do.

My crutch was, in improvs, when in doubt, play insane, because you didn't have to excuse anything that came out of your mouth. It didn't have to make sense.

I like not knowing what's around the corner. It's always been that way, and maybe that's one of the reasons why I'm an actor.

It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.

If you create a place where anything can happen, anything will happen.

There's a certain amount of joy in playing a character in the moment and not knowing what's going to roll out as it goes on. It's a bit like life, in a way.

I think it's exciting, working with new people. There's something refreshing about not knowing what's going to happen. It's like an open sky of possibilities.