Though I love cinema, I had never thought of becoming an actress.
I was not thinking about getting into acting in any way.
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.
Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional baseball player instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.
What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it out again, I suppose.
At 15, saying I wanted to do a reggae album after growing up in a snazzy house in Houston - it was kind of random.
I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed.
I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.
I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
I never wanted to be an actor. I got stuck in it and kind of liked what I was doing.
I just kind of fell into acting.
I know this'll sound obnoxious, but acting was very much an accident for me. I didn't have, like, posters of Marlon Brando in my bedroom when I was growing up.
I found out I wanted to be a filmmaker almost by accident after graduating from college in 2005.
I didn't have any plan to go into comedy.
Comedy is not something that had necessarily jumped out as something I'd immediately go for.
My becoming an actor wasn't planned. My interest always lied in sports such as football, martial arts, gymnastics and dance.
In a way, 'Mamma Mia!' was such a left-field thing for me.
The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.
I never thought that I would pursue a cappella music. I went to Yale College and I was going to go into the medical field.
You don't want to go right, if everyone thinks you're going to go right. You go left, on purpose. Sometimes you can't explain why, and you can't explain what left looks like, but you just do it.
I didn't even like white wine. Then I tasted it and bought a case. It was the first case of any wine I'd ever bought.
I actually wanted to be a nurse, of all things.
I'm probably the most unthinkable vegan on the planet for several reasons.
I didn't even know about MIT until two weeks before I applied.
I never thought of playing for Italy.
