Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
If I ask for money, all I get is advice. But if I ask for advice, I end up getting money.
Fortune, that favors fools.
If I had had to struggle at the beginning like most actors... I'd never have stuck it out. But having such complete success at the beginning, I was stuck with being an actor for life.
But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.
I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked to photograph Princess Diana, and that made me more famous than I wanted. I never asked to photograph Madonna, and that pushed me to another level. There are things that just take you into the limelight.
Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.
Good consequences are sometimes the result of mistakes.
Life has many twists and turns.
That's what the grind is, doing all the little things knowing that something may not come out of it. It probably won't. But the goal is to get a shot at it.
The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.
Life is not what you expect: it is made up of the most unexpected twists and turns.
Out of bad motives good things often come.
Life is full of surprises.
All my success seems to come straight away, and it's not until later that I get to appreciate it. Like with 'Popstars,' I won the competition, and now I look back and go, 'God, I was lucky to have number-one singles and albums.'
The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
Everything I've done I've just fallen into.
Some of the most important discoveries that scientists have made were not what they were seeking at the time.
To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.
I feel like some of the best roles that I've gotten to play I could've never preconceived. These things happen to you in an unexpected fashion, so it's hard to pre-imagine what that would be because some of the best opportunities I've had I could've never anticipated or expected.
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
The big things are the things that you don't expect.
Most things in life come as a surprise.
Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.
All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.
