Unexpected Calling Quotes

I look back - I think I am an accidental actor.

Acting happened to me. If I had pursued it, I think it would have been like someone going to a bar, desperately looking for love and not finding anyone.

I never really wanted to be a writer. I know it sounds strange, but I honestly believe that I didn't pick the story; the story has picked me. I've written absolutely no fiction before 'The Immortals of Meluha.' Not even a short story in school - absolutely nothing.

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing. I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

I had been laughed at my whole life through school, and I never really thought of it as a vocation. I mean, I started off as a soldier, and then I went into the university thinking I was going to be a journalist, but comedy kind of fell on my head and demanded I pursue it.

Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, 'I did not choose acting; acting chose me.' I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football.

Actually, I didn't plan to be an actor.

How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.

God uses those who seem ill-fitted for a significant life.

I never thought of myself as a writer.

Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.

I never wanted to be a writer. I still don't.

I wanted to be a vet when I was little, so it never really dawned on me that acting was my career, it sort of chose me more than I chose it.

I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me.

I actually never wanted to sing, and I thought that I was never going to sing, but I see that God had other plans.

I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell into it.

Suppose that throughout your childhood you were good with numbers. Other kids used to copy your homework. You figured store discounts faster than your parents. People came to you for help with such things. So you took accounting and eventually became a tax auditor for the IRS. What an embarrassing job, right? You feel you should be writing poetry or doing aviation mechanics or whatever. But then you realize that tax collecting can be a calling too.