Chance Meetings Quotes

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

If you're looking for a boyfriend, you aren't gonna find one. They seem to come into your life when you least expect it.

You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.

I remember seeing Bill Hurt in New York once. I talked to him on the phone around 1988 and that's about it. I was shooting in New York and somebody said Glenn Close came by the set.

You know what it's like. Sometimes, you meet a wonderful person, but it's only for a brief instant. Maybe on vacation or on a train or maybe even in a bus line. And they touch your life for a moment, but in a special way. And instead of mourning because they can't be with you for longer, or because you don't get the chance to know them better, isn't it better to be glad that you met them at all?

Everybody that I meet inspires me. You can learn so much from any person that you meet any day on the side of the street.

It was there that, through a mutual friend, I met John Waters - proving what I've always said: you meet the best people on field trips.

Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.

Chance encounters are what keep us going.

I spend 90% of my time with people who don't report to me, which also allows for serendipity, since I'm walking around the office all the time. You don't have to schedule serendipity. It just happens.

We always loved to say 'If I'd had a Monday-morning class, I never would have met you'. Or 'If you'd been reading something else, none of this would have happened'. We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.

You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.

I cannot believe the volume of famous people I run into in my life, and that's part of the reason I love diary format.

You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.

Ah me! the world is full of meetings such as this,--a thrill, a voiceless challenge and reply, and sudden partings after!

I have met people on the subway who have told me the most profound stories, and I am convinced we all have something to teach each other if we just slow down long enough to hear the message.

I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.

Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's nothing to match that chance encounter.

I like chance meetings--life is full of them. Everyday, without realizing it, I pass people whom I should know. At this moment, in this cafe, we're sitting next to strangers. Everyone will get up, leave, and go on their own way. And they'll never meet again. And if they do, they won't realize that it's not for the first time.

You know what the truth is? You don't find Bill Murray. Bill Murray finds you.

You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.

The thing about New York is, more than any other place I've ever been, you run into people on the street that you would never imagine you'd see, old friends, people just like there for a day or two. I find that all the time when I'm walking around Manhattan, running into people that I had no idea were even there.

You meet people, you part ways, sometimes you cross paths again. Mostly, you don't.

We were filming the West Wing on the set one day in DC and Madeleine Albright comes by the set. I mean, when does that happen? You turn around and there's the former Secretary of State just sitting there. After the Clinton administration finished we were filming right outside the White House and John Podesta comes walking up while we're out there filming. Just strolling by the set - the former Chief of Staff! Things like that would happen all the time.

I never know what kind of people I'll meet just by stopping to take a photo.