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Love Quote by Hector Elizondo

"I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough - love will find you. Everything's a surprise. When you think you've got it all figured out... as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded"

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Elizondo’s charm here is that he sells uncertainty as something you can live with, not something you have to conquer. The opening move - “it starts from there” - is deliberately vague, like an actor blocking a scene with just enough direction to let the audience lean in. He’s not describing a grand philosophy so much as a practiced disposition: stay in the story, don’t rush the ending.

“Wait long enough - love will find you” carries a soothing, rom-com cadence, but the subtext is tougher than it sounds. Waiting isn’t passive; it’s endurance. It reframes love less as a prize you earn through optimization and more as an encounter you can’t schedule. That idea pushes against modern self-help culture’s obsession with control, metrics, and “figuring it out.” His “Everything’s a surprise” isn’t naïve; it’s a quiet rebuke to the fantasy that adulthood equals mastery.

Then he pivots with a name-drop that gives the sentiment teeth: “the dice of God are always loaded.” The line lands because it holds two conflicting comforts at once. Loaded dice imply the game is rigged - you’re not fully in charge. Yet they also imply pattern, meaning, maybe even mercy. Fate isn’t random; it’s biased. Elizondo’s intent seems less religious than dramaturgical: life has an unseen hand, and the twist arrives right after you’re certain you know the plot.

Contextually, coming from a working actor whose career is built on timing and unpredictability, it reads like professional wisdom smuggled into spiritual language: hit your mark, stay open, let the scene surprise you.

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Elizondo, Hector. (2026, January 17). I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough - love will find you. Everything's a surprise. When you think you've got it all figured out... as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-the-fact-that-it-starts-from-there-and-you-79315/

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Elizondo, Hector. "I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough - love will find you. Everything's a surprise. When you think you've got it all figured out... as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-the-fact-that-it-starts-from-there-and-you-79315/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough - love will find you. Everything's a surprise. When you think you've got it all figured out... as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-the-fact-that-it-starts-from-there-and-you-79315/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Hector Elizondo (born December 22, 1936) is a Actor from USA.

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