Spontaneous Action Quotes

A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause

For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.

There's nothing you can really do to prepare to rock. Do you prepare to eat a delicious meal? Are you hungry? Then you're gonna eat it.

Everything I've done I've always kind of jumped in headfirst, and it's been a learning curve. Even MuchMusic, I had never done live television before, and all of a sudden you show up, and they're like, 'You ready kid? Let's go.'

I just do what I want to do, and if it's a rather interesting script - which I found.

Act first, explain later.

The same day I was supposed to go to college, I ended up hitting the studio and then poppin' out on the block after that.

I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.

Money is not a motivating factor. I do what comes to me at that moment.

When I race, I don't think about it; it just happens.

Being spontaneous is a blessing.

It's odd, how those things happen to actors. A thing where you think, "I have no idea how to do this," something will happen in your life comes up and you just get it. I don't know how you get it, but actors are pretty extraordinary, in that regard. I think it's fear that happens.

I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.

True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.

I don't make a decision till I see fit. That's why I'm so effective. My mind isn't predetermined.

I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.

These technical flicks and tricks come naturally to me and I don't really think about them. I did a backheel against Udinese and the coach would've strangled me if he could have!

I did not plan to make the Cube.

I'm not a cerebral player. When I'm out on the floor, I try to play.

Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.

I see things as they happen pretty quick, and I just go hit it.

Nothing I do is by design. It's always the result of a happy accident. I didn't have a career plan. It has just become the way it is. It's all good fun.

If I write a song, I'm gonna end up singing it. If I sing it, I gotta dance to it.

What we need to realize is that there can be, shall we say, a movement, a stirring among people, which can be organically designed instead of politically designed.

I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.