Mikey Madison Quotes

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

I've never had a plan - it was just to try and get with the people you like to play with, and try to do the best you can.

I always say don't make plans, make options.

Life is full of surprises, and you need to be ready for everything.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

I'm a goal setter, but in broad strokes. I don't have a by-October-2009-I-want-to-be-here plan. All I do is work with an element of challenge and an element of enjoyment. With that, anything can happen.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

I don't really have one style; I just choose what I like best each time.

I could always flip between emotions and be available to suddenly do something new. I think it's a part of playing, and you hang onto it when you're a kid.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

In 10 years, I don't really know what I'll be, and I like not having any idea. I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

The whole thing about doing TV is that you never know what's going to happen. You just have to go with it and go with the flow.

Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.

If a leaf fell from a tree, I'd stop juggling and play with the leaf. I went to my prop bag and got a little bandage and stuck the leaf back on the tree. People loved it.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

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.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

We're improvising a lot of this, which amazes people.

I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.

There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.

I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.

If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment.

I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.

I'm not a career filmmaker. I just like to do things that I still kind of believe in and because of that you just never know what's going to happen next. It doesn't matter if it's been a good year or a bad year: next year, there's no telling what it will be like.