How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.
A fool must now and then be right, by chance.
I needed to understand this random bad bit of luck as part of a bigger design. Otherwise I was suffering meaninglessly. This made the suffering a lot worse.
When I was younger, I won a radio at a church raffle.
And sometimes in life, I imagine, good things do happen. Most of the time, it's the opposite, obviously. But I don't think you should rule out the possibility that just occasionally chance might deal you a good card.
A lot of things in my career have happened by chance.
My guilty fear is that what I'm doing, probably anyone could do. And that I just got a lot of lucky breaks.
My feeling is, from when I started on 'Breaking Bad,' there's no reason to pick and choose because every episode is great. Whatever episode you get, you're lucky to do it.
I feel like I won the Lotto, as far as that show's concerned.
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.
You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.
All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
Everything in my life happened by coincidence. Even my role in 'Delhi Belly.'
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get.
I timed my previous wife's pregnancy to the moment to have my son born on Bob Dylan's 50th birthday. There is no bigger Bob Dylan fan than me. You don't just time the day and impregnate your wife to get your kid to be born on Bob Dylan's 50th birthday.
Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.
