Edward Norton Quotes

I never dreamt that I would do all the things that I have done. But things just happened to me all the time.

Nothing I ever did I expected to do. It just kind of happened.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

Everything I've done I've just fallen into.

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

For me, everything has always been an accident.

My life is studded with a series of coincidences.

What's crazy about my life is that the biggest things that have happened just happen.

I guess if you live long enough, anything can happen.

My life has been a series of slightly happy accidents.

Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.

Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents- the rest you let float by.

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.

Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.

Luck has a lot to do with how your life develops.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.

Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.

I still think that luck is what a lot of the good things come from. It's simply the luck of where you are, when.

So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your life. I think I made the correct turn.

Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.

No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.