Vince Gilligan Quotes

Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.

Some people plan their life out, and it occurs. Others have things they're thinking about, and things don't go that way.

I often don't know what I'll be working on next year or a year from now. There is often a chance meeting, or something that I worked on 10 years ago suddenly becomes important again.

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

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

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.

You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless.

The only time I've tried to make plans, the cosmic sledgehammer has intervened and something else has happened. You just have to wait and see what comes your way, so that's what I do.

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

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.

There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.

Much of what we're going to try will not work, and much of what does work will do so for unanticipated reasons.

Luck is not scalable. Luck is not a national strategy.

You could never plan your life in a million years.

An actor can never plan. You never know what can work in your favour or not and then maybe the whole dynamics can change.

It's good to plan, but you just never know.

You can't plan your life. It doesn't work.

I don't plan life. Love, marriage, or relationships can't be pre-planned. Whenever it has to happen, it will happen.

No, I never planned my life.

It's always more fun when something happens outside of a script.

Things don't always go according to plan. That's life and that's government.