Phil Donahue Quotes

Some things happen by accident - embrace them.

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

I feel like some of the best roles that I've gotten to play I could've never preconceived. These things happen to you in an unexpected fashion, so it's hard to pre-imagine what that would be because some of the best opportunities I've had I could've never anticipated or expected.

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.

I didn't foresee my career. Things happen.

A lot of times, really wonderful things that have come my way have come basically out of the blue.

My life has been a series of slightly happy accidents.

If I look back, I think most of the things I did - the films, the books, the collaborations with these magazines - were mostly by accident.

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

There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

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

Good things happen when you meet strangers.

I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples' stories.

In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns.

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

The best things in life sometimes happen spontaneously.

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.

Life is all about the unexpected.

Some of the most important discoveries that scientists have made were not what they were seeking at the time.

I didn't have any plans to act, as I thought I would take up a job behind the camera. But, life had its own plans for me. In fact, every time I plan things, they never happen.

I don't care whether it's a chance meeting or playing a role that you thought was totally wrong but you did it anyway. It will often turn out to be the thing that will lead you to the role which is sublime.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never even have imagined. The coincidences or little miracles that happen every day of your life are hints that the universe has much bigger plans for you than you ever dreamed of for yourself.

Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow, something will happen, something you couldn’t plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall.