Unexpected Start Quotes

My first experience with football was not very good because I didn't plan on playing football. I was just playing hookie one day and I was a sophomore and decided not to go to class. And the principal - normally he does his rounds and I thought I had him down pretty good where he was going to be - he sort of walked up behind me and scared me. He noticed I could run real fast. So that's how I got introduced to football.

When I was younger, I didn't know television presenting was a thing, which is how I totally got my foot in the door. But I didn't really know that was a job. I never really had a TV or watched TV, and I really just wanted to be an actor.

I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.

I never thought about becoming an actor. Even when I applied for university, I didn't choose theater as a major to become an actor.

There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my academic career. In fact, there was little to suggest I would have an academic career.

I didn't set out wanting to be a fashion designer from the age of 3. It wasn't that kind of dream.

I didn't think I'd be starting a NFL game.

I think something that escapes a lot of people is my entire career... I call myself the 'often unwanted' because when I got to Ring of Honor, I was told it was supposed to be one-off deal.

I sort of got fooled into acting, actually. I never intended to do it.

The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio.

People think that I popped out of my mother's womb singing 'Chasing Pavements'.

One day, I just wandered into a dance class full of girls, and that was it. I thought, 'Hang on! I'll have a bit of this.' I went back a week later and got dragged up by the teacher. It wasn't a massive calling.

I didn't get into comics until college, and it was sort of an accident.

I wasn't a model that loved food. I was someone that loved food that started modeling.

The acting came about because of a girl. I was 19 and met a girl who wanted to go to the premiere drama school in Australia, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, where Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett and many others went. She had an audition, and I went with her for moral support - to cheer her on. I did an audition my way, and it kept going.

I was just picked from the streets to do some acting, and that's how I got started.

Emotionally, making my debut has been the highlight so far. I didn't know I was starting until three minutes before. I went in and put my shirt on, and the team were already in the tunnel.

I actually started acting because I couldn't dance.

I began as a true beginner, not knowing how to dance or perform. I just entered a local contest in town as a joke, because if you entered you got a free blouse and scarf.

I wasn't planning on doing musicals, but that's how I started.

I never told anybody I wanted to write, I kind of fell into it backwards.

You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.

The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat

A lot of people think that I grew up in recording studios and knew the whole process, but that was never the case.

Babe and I are both great television fans, and we've been planning to do something on TV. But we certainly never intended to start out on an unrehearsed network show!