Nithya Menen Quotes

Everything in 'Satya' was by chance. It was a film which just started evolving by itself. I just went mostly by instinct and kept on improvising on location, and the film just got made itself.

If an essay has a 'motive,' it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the driven will. A genuine essay is not a doctrinaire tract or a propaganda effort or a broadside.

Actually, the books were never a planned career path.

I don't like to know exactly what I'm going to do in a scene, because the most interesting moments as an audience member are moments of truthful spontaneity.

Nothing was planned in my career.

You discover a lot of things on your feet and if you don't have any rehearsal, then anything that happens on the screen is by accident.

If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.

I've never guided my life. I've just been whipped along by the waves I'm sitting in. I don't make plans at all. Plans are what make God laugh. You can make plans, you can make so many plans, but they never go right, do they?

I'm not used to a script.

My whole act is off the top of my head.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.

It was not like I planned even to be a choreographer. It just happened to me somehow.

I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream.

I am spontaneous and not a method actor.

I didn't intend to make one solo record, much less two. It's really a matter of seeing how it goes.

I have never planned anything. 'Kung Fu Yoga' was also never planned or anything.

I didn't plan to be a comedian. I didn't plan to be a drag queen. It just kind of evolved.

An actor can never plan. You never know what can work in your favor or not and then, may be the whole dynamics can change.

A dream is unrehearsed.

The life we receive is not always what we choose.

Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

Love. Purpose. Those are things that you can't plan for. Those are things that just happen.

Playing Arnie was fun because everything I did was spontaneous.

I learn the lines as soon as I can and then the challenge really, for filming, is to show up and be there and respond to what's around you. That's where the gold dust is. It's really strange, no amount of preparation will help you with the magic of spontaneity on the day [of filming].