Publilius Syrus Quotes

You can have the perfect plan through the first punch but then you have to take the fight second by second.

Let me hear the music. I'ma let the music instruct me on which way to go. Forwards, backwards, left, right. It's like boxing. I'm only as strong as my opponent.

The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.

I like to think that we've got a plan, so let's stick to it. That said, once we've stuck to it, we're allowed as much improvisation as anyone cares to indulge themselves in.

Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.

You must plan to be spontaneous.

For punches I never really choose, I take whatever opportunity is given to me. If it's a left, I'll take it. If it's a right I'll take it.

With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.

The best plan is to have no plan.

I didn't really have a road map ever.

I'm not one of those actresses that asks what's going to happen. I've never been. I just take the scripts, and I see what's given to me, and I go with it that way.

I fight with a game plan, but sometimes you have an audible.

I always have a plan, but then I'm always ready to throw the plan out, and everyone's ready to make a radical left turn if necessary.

My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.

My strategy is that I actually have absolutely no strategy.

Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.

No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one.

If you don't have a plan, you can end up doing some interesting things.

The reason I don't have a plan is because if I have a plan I'm limited to today's options.

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

I don't like to plan anything ever because it never seems to work. I'm just really...let's just get this film out and see how this one does.

I react to what is necessary. I would like to eschew any formula.

The plan itself is opportunism. There is no plan before that.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

I'm no longer beholden to the sacredness of the recorded song as some kind of ultimate standard by which every performance of the song is measured. I like to diversify, that there are multiple versions of every song. And the songs incorporate a lot of improvisation, and an element of chance, and I think that's exciting. There's no one true formulation of a song, they have various manifestations depending on the space we're in. I like that.