Audra McDonald Quotes

I never expected that this would be my life.

My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.

You think your life is going one way and then suddenly, you're on another track.

There's nothing I'm doing these days that I ever thought I was gonna do.

I never thought that I would become Nia Sharma. I never imagined I would end up earning this much money. I never thought I would earn this much in my entire life.

People ask my mother whether she had any idea that I'd be CEO of a company some day, and she would say, 'Absolutely not. Totally out of the realm of possibility.' There was certainly nothing that would have been very predictable in my upbringing.

It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?

Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.

When I was 25, people used to say to me that having kids would change you, and I'd roll my eyes.

Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.

Talking to my wife, we stare at each other, saying, 'How is this happening? Why is this happening? Why now?' It's nothing I ever aspired to.

My life was really interesting before 'Chic.'

If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.

If someone had told me in 1963 that one day I would be in Congress, I would have said, 'You're crazy. You don't know what you're talking about.'

I just happened to step into acting. And now I can't imagine myself doing anything else.

I moved from Philadelphia to California when I was 25, after traveling abroad for a year. I thought I'd come home eventually and settle down, but I didn't.

Before my first child was born, I had nothing going on professionally really, and it's been a very blessed period of creativity for me since he arrived. It's very surreal. It's almost as if the babies are out there pulling strings somewhere, deciding what kind of life they want to be born into.

I am an unpredictable journey.

From 19 to 28 there was a lot of turmoil in my life, but in a stuck way. Then, around 28, my life started to get shaken up. I realized I wanted to grow more and that anything that wasn't working in my life, I could fix it. I feel like I came into my womanhood. And that was when I got married.

I saw a person that I never thought I would ever become.

If things had gone according to my plans, I'd be a lawyer. I never dreamt of being an actress.

It's funny where life can take you.