Unexpected Turn Quotes

I never planned to become an actor.

And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.

For me personally, the technology that has taken the most unexpected turn in my lifetime is what I refer to as 'the device formerly known as the cell phone.' I still remember many predictions that by 2000 there would only be about a million cell phone users. Boy, were they ever wrong!

When I look back, I remember how being a part of Bollywood was never the plan.

I didn't think I was ever going to run for office.

I thought 2013 was the end of my coaching career.

I kind of dwindled into acting.

Yesterday was glory and joy. Today, a blackened burn everywhere. On the record of my life, these two days will be put down as one

I've never wanted to be an actress. I came into the industry to be a filmmaker, but let us say fate had other plans for me. I don't want to be the next glamour queen.

I never thought I'd end up coaching. It wasn't the plan.

I had no intention of being an actor.

This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.

My journey to working on loneliness was certainly not an expected one or planned one.

I wanted to be a veterinarian until I saw a video of a vet performing surgery on a dog. Then I decided I wanted to be a pianist.

I became an actor by accident, not by design.

I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor and ended up joining a band.

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

Getting into television was a total fluke.

I wanted to go to college to be a journalist and follow in my dad's work. And then I became an actor.

A very odd thing happened to my career when I got The Wire. My career was pretty much a steady climb; I didn't really flatline much. When I did The Wire, that's when I thought all the doors would open, but that's when things flatlined. I had a really hard time just getting seen for film, which was the next step.

We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.

I never expected that this would be my life.

In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely.

I never hid my move to Real Madrid was almost done... my fate changed, and I arrived at Barcelona instead.

No, I was going to college and got discovered.