Nick Nurse Quotes

As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

I like things to be unpredictable.

No, I never planned my life.

What I went into the acting business for was to have a certain amount of chaos in my life. I don't know what I'm doing next. It's exciting. That's the way I like it.

I don't plan, because everything goes against my plans anyways. There's absolutely no point in planning anything. I'm just enjoying the moment. I'm meeting with a whole lot of people - casting directors, directors, agents. I have things going on everywhere, but I have no solid plans.

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.

I know for sure that nothing is guaranteed. Life always changes. I know for sure that I'm open to all possibilities always... let's just say my life is never boring.

I'm not somebody who plans. There were times I planned a lot in my life, and it never turns out how you plan it. So I think it's important not to. I'm a very spontaneous person.

I love to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it!

I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

You can't always go by the book, even in comedy.

Adventure is just bad planning.

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.

No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere.

The best plan is to have no plan.

Never in my life have I thought, 'What's next?' It's just like 'Finding Dory.' Things just happen.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It's part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

You've gotta leave enough space for your actors to bring stuff to the table and whatever the weather's doing that day or what the light's like. Things can shift, and you have to be malleable. Every day is a different feeling and a change.

I don't make long-term plans, for sure.

No, I don't have a plan. Whatever happens happens. There's never a plan.

My life and career have been a big improvisation.

You cannot plan what is going to happen. You cannot plan your life.

You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.