William Klein Quotes

Nothing I ever did I expected to do. It just kind of happened.

Everything I've done I've just fallen into.

The beauty about my career is that none of it was really calculated.

My career has been a level of serendipity all along. I've never planned anything out more than a few years. All the places we lived - the 12, 13 countries - and the companies I worked for were a combination of circumstances.

There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

I didn't foresee my career. Things happen.

Significant consequences can begin very inconsequentially. That's one thing that fascinates me. The other thing that fascinates me is how accident can undermine something that's unfolding, something that might have played out differently otherwise.

I can't say that I wanted to be an actress, it just happened along the way. I did not even know that I would be doing modelling but that also just happened.

All the films that I did, I didn't plan them. They just came to me.

I never planned to become a choreographer. I never planned to become an actor. I never planned to be a director. It's all good will. I did nothing.

Some things happen by accident - embrace them.

Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries.

Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Selling potato chips was obvious, as it was a family business. When friends suggested I should try theatre, I gave it a shot. Then I did a lot of advertisements, and then movies happened.

In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.

I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked to photograph Princess Diana, and that made me more famous than I wanted. I never asked to photograph Madonna, and that pushed me to another level. There are things that just take you into the limelight.

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

I didn't plan on being a comedian. I didn't plan on getting married and I didn't plan on having kids, but I did all those things.

People do all sorts of things impulsively and follow those impulses into strange places.

Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.

Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get.

Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.

My life is studded with a series of coincidences.

In world history man’s actions result in something quite different from what he purposes or intends.

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.