Dick Van Dyke Quotes

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

There's only so much you can control in life.

Sometimes you lose, sometimes you win, sometimes you are unlucky, but that's life.

You never know what life is going to throw at you, really, do you?

You can never be sure what is around the corner.

An actor can never plan. You never know what can work in your favor or not and then, may be the whole dynamics can change.

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

I've had to make really big decisions, knowing the results were not always in my control. Through these moments, I've learned to be daring and take risks but understand that everything always happens for a reason.

Fate does not always seek our consent.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.'

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

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

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

You can't control everything that comes to you.

Going by my past journey, I am not certain where life will take me, what turns and twists will happen; nobody knows where they will end up. As life changes direction, I'll flow with it.

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

I've never guided my life. I've just been whipped along by the waves I'm sitting in. I don't make plans at all. Plans are what make God laugh. You can make plans, you can make so many plans, but they never go right, do they?