Michael Reagan Quotes

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

If 'formulaic' is somebody who is unlikely to succeed starting down a process and succeeding - then isn't that what most films are about? And art films are about people who aren't likely to succeed and then don't succeed.

Look at me - I was the boo boy for years and years. Did I ever think I would end up in Hollywood or the FA Cup final? No, I didn't.

Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

I'll be honest with you: not a chance in this world. But you know, stranger things have happened.

If you think about where I'm from, I'm not supposed to be singing in the first place. I'm not supposed to be alive right now.

My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I've always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism.

[Military] events are proof that success is not due simply to general causes. Particular factors can often be decisive—details known only to those who were on the spot. There can also be moral factors which never come to light; while issues can be decided by chances and incidents so minute as to figure in histories simply as anecdotes

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

Don’t ignore planning for unlikely events. Over long periods of time the highly improbable gets more probable to occur at least once.

The older I get, the more I'm surprised with life. Things don't end up the way you think they will.

Life is crazy. It goes in directions that you could never guess.

The big things are the things that you don't expect.

Everything works out in weird ways in the NFL.

No one in a normal walk of life flies into a new city unknown and unemployed and ends up doing their job on national television a few days later. I love the game, but it's crazy sometimes.

I am a girl from Cleveland, Ohio, that never thought she would be in Hollywood!

I just love the idea of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, whether it's the success of 'Cool Runnings,' which is the success of four guys from Jamaica who had never seen snow, or whether it's my success, just as a human being.

For most human beings, if what they want happens, it is a success. If what they could not have imagined happens, it is luck. If what nobody could foresee happens, it is a miraculous existence.

Sometimes the best part in life is an accident that goes right.

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.

Everything's serendipitous and there's no way of knowing who's going to get sick or who's going to get hit by a bus or who's going to fall in love and who's going to get pregnant. All the things that happen, it's up for grabs so it's kind of an exercise in surrender in a way.

The things that you can't really foresee and that kind of surprise you, and a lot of times they are bad, but other times, they bring something different and new to the table.

We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.

Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.

I think that's as far as you have to think, everything happens as a coincidence. It either happens or it doesn't. It's hard to map out a strategic plan by saying, 'If I do that, that's going to get me to the next level.' I think that's the wrong way to go into movies as an actor. It doesn't happen for me that way.