Joe Mantegna Quotes

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

I don't plan, because everything goes against my plans anyways. There's absolutely no point in planning anything. I'm just enjoying the moment. I'm meeting with a whole lot of people - casting directors, directors, agents. I have things going on everywhere, but I have no solid plans.

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

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.

I'm not such a big fan of having a linear answer to things.

It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.

I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead

History is totally unpredictable.

The 21st century does not like tidy minds.

It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.

I like things to be unpredictable.

I'm a guy that, when there's something rolling out there, the predetermined rotations might go right in the garbage can.

We're dealing with the chaos of life, and we're rubbing it down. The deeper you rub, the more patterns you can see until you realize that it's really an organized chaos. There isn't really ever any chance to understand it all, but we're here to keep rubbing.

What interests me is the unforeseeable.

There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.

In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.

Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.

You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.

Do I really look like a guy with a plan?

The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense?

The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .

I've been a politician long enough to know that every year will find us living in a situation that one couldn't have imagined a year previously. Sometimes it's better than we imagined, sometimes it's not as good.