Gemma Arterton Quotes

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

I don't really plan. I'm almost intuitive about things.

I don't plan. I don't think, 'I have to do this kind of part 'cause I've done that kind of part.' I'm not a very good planner.

Any decision that's made about my career is ultimately my decision, and it's helped me not to plan too much. I've never been the guy thinking, 'I want to do a play this year, I want to do this kind of movie or this kind of character.' I don't have that sort of control.

There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

Really, I'm never much of a goal-setter. Whenever I've tried to make big, solid plans, they don't happen. I'm more into whatever the circumstances are that present themselves, making wise decisions around that.

I think that's the thing I learned at 'Saturday Night Live' - any time I would try and strategize, I would always, always fall on my face. Things worked out when I tried to make it about what I was feeling at that moment and what I was into in that moment of my life.

I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make.

My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.

I really don't work to a plan, but I just do what interests me and what I like to do.

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.

I don't really plan. I just see what happens.

It's nice to be able to, you know, for me to be able to personally do whatever the heck I feel like, whether I think that I can justify it exactly in business concerns or not.

I'm just sort of making it up as I go along.

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

I am not a five-year-plan type. I tend to put one foot in front of the other and to allow things to unfold.

I tend to go with the flow and that flow can end up in great places or not so great places.

I fly from the seat of my pants, basically.

My job is to be OK without a precise plan.

I'm flying by the seat of my pants, never creating with a thought to what's up ahead!

I engage and after that I see what to do.

you have to play it out sometimes.

I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be.

When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off.