Ben Miller Quotes

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

I don't seem to have ever had a plan, but I have always been quite good at walking through doors when they are opened. I am never any good at anticipating what will happen next, but I always go for it when it does.

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

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

I am always living in the now, so I like what fate brings to you. That's always fun for me. To have a process and someone be like, 'How about this?' And you just grab onto that and see where it takes you.

You cannot plan what is going to happen. You cannot plan your life.

Don't plan too hard, because something much better might be out there.

In this business it's difficult to make plans. I think the plans follow you and find you.

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?

Just true to form with life sometimes - what you're trying to do doesn't necessarily work out, but what ends up happening can be a lot better. I just relax and say whatever is going to happen - happens.

I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.

I've never had a clear road map. When things come along, I benefit.

You could never plan your life in a million years.

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.

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

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

I tend to go with the flow and that flow can end up in great places or not so great places.

No, I never planned my life.

I've stopped making plans a long time back because they never work in my case. Now, I just take each day as it comes.

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.

Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion — you keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.

I've worked with collage a lot. And there's this chance thing that happens - you don't always control things. Why did you find this today and not this? But you've got this thing, and you make it work. It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

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

I don't plan, because everything goes against my plans anyways. There's absolutely no point in planning anything. I'm just enjoying the moment. I'm meeting with a whole lot of people - casting directors, directors, agents. I have things going on everywhere, but I have no solid plans.