Unplanned Career Quotes

When I first got into acting, I never had any long-term goals, never had any plan. I just thought it would be a good way to make some extra money.

I'd done acting at a local drama school on Saturdays. I just enjoyed it. It never entered my mind I could possibly do it for a career.

Comedy was an easy choice for me because I didn't have a career.

Honestly, 'Parenthood' was not what I planned. I didn't plan to do another drama. I didn't plan to play a single mom. I didn't plan, even, to do an ensemble show. But I hadn't found anything I liked as much. I just connected to the show.

It was never really my plan to become a filmmaker.

Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers. I'm just on a journey. Wherever I run across a job, I say, 'Okay, I'll do that.'

I never set out to be a businessman

Songwriting was always my 'plan B'. I didn't even know that songwriting was a job until my late teens!

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

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

I wasn't one of those people who had some grand plan to become Prime Minister. I'm a normal person. When I was being foolish in my twenties, when I was at university, I wasn't thinking I was going to become an MP.

Acting was never planned.

I became an actor by accident, not by design.

Nothing is a career move. Everything I've done this year has so not been a career move.

My career has been a level of serendipity all along. I've never planned anything out more than a few years. All the places we lived - the 12, 13 countries - and the companies I worked for were a combination of circumstances.

I never thought I would have any particular career in movies at all.

I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't career-oriented in any way. It was more fun and therapeutic, so I never really thought of it as something I would end up doing. I was more convinced I was going to be a painter.

I didn't set out to be a singer. Actually, the earliest creative efforts I made were drawings copied from comics we got every week at the newsagent, or rearranging photos I cut out and pasted in scrapbooks.

Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.

There was never any career plan. When 'Red Dwarf' started I thought we were doing a curious little sitcom on BBC2, I didn't think I was becoming an actor. I didn't see that 21 years later I'd still be talking about it, let alone filming a new one. For me everything's always been an accident.

Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor.

I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that's the last thing I wanted.

I think I always knew I wasn't gonna have a regular job.

I really didn't want to rap; I was just a regular kid.

I didn't intend to be a novelist. I didn't intend to be anything. I thought I'd be a journalist.