John Hurt Quotes

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.

No, I don't have a plan. Whatever happens happens. There's never a plan.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

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.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

You never know what's going to happen and when it's going to happen.

I respond very easily to outside events. One's life is a matter of chance. Nothing that you've arranged for yourself works out.

You could never plan your life in a million years.

You don't know what's gonna happen, so you can't really plan: you can only go with it.

You don't have any kind of control ultimately. Things are just going to happen as they will. And I think your best option sometimes is just to react rather than try to plan everything out in advance.

I am not very good at planning things, actually, but I believe that things happen when they need to and when they have to.

I've never really had a plan. You never know what's going to happen.

It is really strange how life works, isn't it?

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.

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

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.

After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.

Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

If you want guarantees in life, then you don't want life. You want rehearsals for a script that's already been written. Life by its nature cannot have guarantees, or its whole purpose is thwarted.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.