Chance Quotes - Page 62

There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.

I wanted to tell stories about people who didn't have the chance to tell their own.

You remember the [remarks] you made in 1994 about, 'I think I can guard you, I can shut you down, I would love to play against you?' Well, you're about to get your chance.

Wherever we are, we can improve our chances of getting ahead by keeping a book in hand

Sometimes you look at a painting and certain parts are so beautiful. You say, "Wow, this is fantastic," but 10 minutes later you most likely have to kill it. Every painting wants to live. You want to build and bring this type of painting to the climax. When it's at the highest point, you want more. And then if you want more, you might destroy it. So you take a chance.

By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar?

I don't need to control the mind of my viewer. Now this might sound contradictory because I want to make these installations set up an environment that will produce a certain kind of experience in the viewer, but beyond a certain point, I take hands off and leave it up to chance and personal experience. So maybe it's a marriage of control and no control we're talking about where the artist produces the artifact or the environment and then walks away from it, and the second half of the equation is the viewer and their personal history and how they feel about what they're experiencing.

I had this strange belief, perhaps naively, that somehow, if I kept working hard, and I kept doing it with integrity, that I would get my chance.

You can bet - a good chance of Hillary [Clinton], a good chance of [Donald] Trump - but not 100% in either case.

I think both of them [Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders] have [chances] because they are not the establishment, not for who they are.

You already gave me forever, Aislinn. I'm asking for a chance at right now.

It’s all a bit of a gamble, mate. That’s all I can promise you. And we never get to see what that other life would have looked like if we don’t take chances.

If we are given a chance to go back to our youth, we won't go back, because we cannot give up our accumulated wisdom and we cannot give up things that belong to our time!

I can never be an atheist, because God is our celestial hope for our existential worries, our cosmic chance against absurdity!" MMI

If, by chance, you find that you are losing hope, tap back into those who inspire you.

You gotta take chances in this life or you're already dead.

I never thought I'd get a chance to do what I'm doing. It's such a dream.

It was a matter of going back through a lot of sermons and remembering the questions and conversations, where these ideas came from. So the book [Max on Life] is really kind of a second chance to answer these questions.

The book, Max on Life, is really kind of a second chance to answer these questions.

On Sanjay and Craig, Ive had a number of chances to work with Chris Hardwick, and that is so much fun.

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be.

I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.

I went to theater school but never really got the chance to do theater, and it's always been a dream of mine.

We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers.

Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.