Gautam Rode Quotes

I've worked with collage a lot. And there's this chance thing that happens - you don't always control things. Why did you find this today and not this? But you've got this thing, and you make it work. It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

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

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

I've never really had a plan. You never know what's going to happen.

I am always living in the now, so I like what fate brings to you. That's always fun for me. To have a process and someone be like, 'How about this?' And you just grab onto that and see where it takes you.

No, I never planned my life.

The nature of improvisation is you don't know what's going to happen.

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.

If you don't have a plan, you can end up doing some interesting things.

When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off.

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

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.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.

My life is spontaneous and things just kind of happen.

We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

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.

You never know how things are going to turn out in a movie. You can imagine a scene one way, and it can turn out to be completely the polar opposite of what you expected. You just have to roll with the punches.

There is no facet of my professional life that doesn't require or request improvisation.

I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.