Quotes About Unpredictability

I'm not doing a 9 to 5 job, so every week is different; one week I might be at home for three or four days, and another week it'll be busier. That's the beauty of my job.

I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.

I've been known to turn up drunk at triathlons and do very well. I'm more of a heat-of-the-moment type of guy. A friend will tell me about something coming up, maybe that weekend, and usually not an abundance of thought goes into my doing it.

When you're in the music business, every day is the same. If you work 9 to 5, you can't wait for the weekend, but in the music business, you don't know one day from the next. It's always the weekend.

Looking at the team sheets, you're never quite sure one weekend to the next who's going to be in a team and who isn't.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

There was always that thing with 'Johnny' - I always saw myself as his writer and PR. But when he got out there, I had no control. His whole thing was going off on those flights of fancy. Going, 'Let's see what we can possibly do that hasn't been done before up here.' And when it works, it's lovely; it's a great night.

By my very nature, I would never achieve a great level of consistency. That's my appeal and my downfall rolled into one.

I don't feel like consistency is in my life at all, but I honestly wouldn't have it any other way because it keeps my life interesting.

Since when is politics consistent?

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

Music is something no one can control.

Count on me to shine where it doesn't count.

You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.

I crack myself up. Even I don't know what I'm going to say next.

I'm not the best fighter but I'm the craziest fighter.

When you're in a crisis, there's really no playbook.

It is a cruel game at times.

I don't have a daily routine at all.

That's why the tactics are so hard against Kyrgios because no one knows what he is going to do.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

On 'Silver Linings Playbook,' David O. Russell is the master at getting his actors to give him something that he doesn't expect. He loves to keep things spontaneous. He talks to the actors throughout a take because, in real life, you don't know what the next person is going to say; you don't know when you're going to get interrupted.