Ani DiFranco Quotes

It's the fun part of this business: you never know what your day is gonna hold. Some things could be very, very last-minute. It could be at that very last second. So, it's pretty wild, and it keeps you on your toes. That's for sure.

It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.

Things can move so fast that you don't have time to catch your breath or think about the next move.

I never plan tomorrow because I don’t even know what I’m doing today.

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.

I wish to God I was organized enough to tell you that, 'Yes, there will be 14 books, and this one will go here, and that one will go there'... but to be honest, I hardly know what I'm going to do when I get up in the morning.

I'm kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what's around the corner.

I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.

Television is fast and loose. You have two or three takes to get your part right, and if you have a problem, well, by the time you figure it out, everyone's moved on to the next scene. It's good training, keeps you on your toes.

Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.

In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

Adventure is just bad planning.

The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.

Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.

The best plan is to have no plan.

There's really no way to plan how to play an alien.

After the first ball is bowled, it's only chaos. What you are trying to do is you're trying to manage the chaos. It's not like a script that happens.

Celebrity Apprentice' was something where you don't know what you're going to do the next day. Every two days, somebody goes home, and you don't know if the next day you've got to be the project manager or what's going to happen, so you can't really prepare. You really have to be on top of everything.

I like things to be unpredictable.

I was raised in an environment where chaos was the norm, so I was at my best in chaos.

I like to jump around, and it takes a long time for people to catch up to me sometimes.

You can't prepare for something that you can't prepare for.

I'm a guy that, when there's something rolling out there, the predetermined rotations might go right in the garbage can.