Matthew Macfadyen Quotes

You can't control everything that comes to you.

We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.

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.

So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.

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.

You can't control everything.

I don't chase after things, but I put forward the effort and know the rest of it is out of my hands.

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Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what "it" wanted me to do.

To be honest, we have no control over what's going on with a movie, much less what people are going to think of it. Your whole life is wound up in it but you don't have control and you have to get used to being on that turbulent plane without trying to fly it. The less you think about all that the better.

I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my job is done. Now, it's in the stars. We'll see what happens.' There's nothing I can do to affect it.

I always take kind of a zen view of casting and I really don't remember people who passed. I kind of turn it over to the universe and figure, 'Wow, I guess that wasn't meant to be.' It doesn't sit with me.

We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

I surrender the idea of having some kind of control over the arc of my career a lot of the time because you never know what tomorrow's going to bring.

You can make all the birth plans in the world, but at the end of the day - go with the flow.

There is some information that an actor doesn't need, and that's okay. I can't control everything. I don't want to control everything. Sometimes, you want to control everything, and you want to know the size of the lens and stuff like that. I am so relaxed as an actor because I don't want to control everything. I just want to control my part.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

One of the things I noticed in my career that gave me a lot of happiness early on was realising we don't have any control.

I'm a bit of a control freak, and I had to realize you can't control everything in your life.

With situations that you have no power over, there is no point in worrying about one thing or another. Why think about things that you can't control?

I've stopped questioning things and how things work.

I tend to detach myself from movies once I'm done shooting them, because after that, it's in the hands of God. And it doesn't help if I panic.

It's good to let go of control. That's probably something all artists and song writers will say at some point.

Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.