Stephen Frears Quotes

You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.

I never thought I'd be acting. It's very accidental for me.

I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.

I certainly never thought I would run for office myself. If someone had suggested it, I would have laughed out loud.

I'd never planned on being a model.

I didn't picture myself as a movie actress. I began to think about it around college. I remember thinking, 'Well somebody has to be in them,' so maybe I could do that eventually. It's all been a surprise.

I started as a director and just fell upon acting.

I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.

For me, running a set and directing has been the most rewarding thing of my life and a happy surprise, because it was never really on my radar.

I became a director by accident. M.S. Raju garu asked me to direct a movie, and I said OK. It all happened in 5 minutes.

Abhishek Chaubey has been in my bucket list for a long time. When he approached me, I thought it's for a film he is producing, but I never expected my fourth film to be an Abhishek Chaubey film.

I never planned to act in Malayalam. 'Yakshiyum Njanum' just happened and everything else just followed.

I had never thought I would be an actor.

Never, never in my life did I have it in my mind to become an actress or be part of a film.

The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films.

I went to Carnegie Mellon for a year and a month or two, and then I dropped out because I got a movie. I didn't anticipate ever leaving school - I was a really serious drama student - and then that happened, and my life sort of took a turn.

It was a wonderful experience working with Nagarjuna sir. I mean, I never expected this to happen. For me, who watched his films standing in a queue at theatres, and now sharing the screen with him is a huge thing.

My modeling career was really just a long accident - one that happened to coincide with my chocolate-cake phase.

I didn't even know I would be an actor; I always wanted to be a cameraman.

I had never dreamt of acting.

I never thought I will ever get back into films when I took that break. 'English Vinglish' just happened.

Just as I was telling myself that I was a one-film actress, it all started to happen, both at home and in my career.

If you had asked me in 2005, when I had just joined Foreigner, that I would leave the band in 2007 to play with Led Zeppelin, I would have said you're nuts.

You don't necessarily have to have your movie made to have success.

Every time I've heard Ava DuVernay speak, I have learned so much.