Ludwig Bemelmans Quotes

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

Getting into television was a total fluke.

For me, everything has always been an accident.

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

I never planned on a career in music at all, so I should say I'm very lucky.

I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked to photograph Princess Diana, and that made me more famous than I wanted. I never asked to photograph Madonna, and that pushed me to another level. There are things that just take you into the limelight.

Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it isn't. And sometimes you pay no attention to something whatsoever, and God just makes it into everything.

Yogi seemed to be doing everything wrong, yet everything came out right.

I do try to let what is obviously unintended yet naturally good stay in.

I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.

Twitter wasn't planned. It just happened.

Good consequences are sometimes the result of mistakes.

It was not like I planned even to be a choreographer. It just happened to me somehow.

I knew I was going to be successful from day one. From day one. That's why it throws me whenever someone says it was such a fluke that I was successful.

I didn't have any ambition to be president. It was fate. The people found me.

Cricket was never my first choice. I never wanted to be a sportsperson. It just happened. It was destiny.

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.

I can't say that I wanted to be an actress, it just happened along the way. I did not even know that I would be doing modelling but that also just happened.

A lot of things in my career have happened by chance.

I never planned to become a choreographer. I never planned to become an actor. I never planned to be a director. It's all good will. I did nothing.

I think I've managed to Forrest Gump my way though life.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

He'd done as he'd pleased and even had often enjoyed long runs of luck where he hadn't been caught. But the luckiest moment of his life had been being caught.