Fay Weldon Quotes

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

Life is anything but predictable.

It's great to surprise people. If you do the same thing all over again, which people expect you to do, they're going to get bored.

I hope I'm always surprising people, and I hope I'm always surprising myself.

No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Life is tricky - you never know what's going to happen.

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

I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise.

The beautiful thing about baseball is that anything can happen. It's like life in that way. As soon as you think you have it all figured out, something happens that makes you realize - you know nothing. The only thing that's guaranteed is that it will be an exciting ride.

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked.

It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

I never want anything to be too predictable.

You really want to keep ringing the changes - you hope that your work and your choices make people excited about where you're going next and that that might be somewhere unexpected.

You never know what's going to happen in the future.

I feel the best way to respect my audience is to not give them what they expect from me... 'cause it's fun that way.

Projects you think are no-brainers stall, and other things see the light of day. You never count anything out.

When we dare to hope for a certain outcome and take action after action toward that outcome, we're dealing with nothing less than the spirit of creativity itself.

I love the element of surprise, throwing people off of what they think they know about what I can do and who I am. I just want to keep doing that.

I like to surprise myself. I like to surprise my fans, too.

One should always be a little improbable.

It's the mishaps that make it fun, and brings you the surprise.

I like to play unpredictable characters, and I like to be unpredictable in what movie I'll do. I want to skip to work. I don't want to repeat anything. What the future holds, I don't know, but that's what I like. I'll take any risk there is.

Chance is the only source of true novelty.