Michael B. Jordan Quotes

Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.

There's always some room for improvisation.

When everything else breaks down, I don't hesitate to roam out of the pocket and do the boogaloo.

I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.

I'm not somebody who plans. There were times I planned a lot in my life, and it never turns out how you plan it. So I think it's important not to. I'm a very spontaneous person.

The main thing is just really to play my game... and while you are playing the match, as it goes along, you kind of figure things out.

You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.

You must plan to be spontaneous.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.

There is no facet of my professional life that doesn't require or request improvisation.

I can have my day carefully planned, but if someone wakes up with a cough or a sniffle, then everything changes. Thinking quickly and adapting without grumbling are essential skills to learn, in my opinion.

I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned.

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.

Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.

You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless.

I've always felt that I'm in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way.

I'm not good at making plans, because I never have been. I never do things with an idea of where they may wind up.

Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust.

The best plan is to have no plan.

I think I've lived long enough to understand that plans really are very overrated.

I've never been one of those guys who storyboards every frame, because that would take away some of the mystery and some of the fun.