Delta Burke Quotes

I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.

I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.

I happen to have a college education and I never planned on being a fighter.

After high school, I had $2,000 saved, and I packed everything I could into my '95 Nissan Sentra with no air-conditioning, and I drove out to L.A.

It was never my goal to be an actor.

People always tell me the next stage of my career means moving to New York, but I never will. I don't care how that affects my career, and I think it's stupid that it would.

I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a dentist, but you never know what life will bring you.

My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.

I had the offer to write books plenty of times during the early stage of my career, and I always kind of just pushed back because it wasn't the right time.

I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.

When I first got out to Hollywood, they were pushing me for sitcoms, and I didn't really have an interest in them. I wanted to do films and slowly worked that way. And then it became, I guess, this curse of the leading man.

I thought, 'I'll come back to New York. I worked for the 'Aspen Times' when I lived in Aspen. I'll work for the 'New York Times' when I live in New York.' It didn't work out that way.

I ended up being a businessman unwittingly. I wanted to be an academic; I wanted to be like Einstein.

I really hope acting is going to be my career to the end, but you don't know anything, really, do you?

I am 74 now. Looking back, I have a sense of not really being in control of my career. I just went where it took me.

I had no idea when I graduated from high school and then from graduate school what I wanted to do with my life. I had no idea that I was ever going to be an actor.

I don't regret any of my decisions. But yes, I feel that I should have planned my career well in Bollywood. But then again, I did not have any guidance. There was no one to tell me the dos and don'ts.

Leaving Tottenham was not by best choice but, apart from that, there haven't been too many regrets in my career.

I had to play a certain way to get in the league. That's kind of where I came from. I wouldn't change a thing going back, I wouldn't change anything that happened.

I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.

Back in 2000, I had come to a crossroads in my life, unsure about what career path I should pursue. Shepherd, bouncer, philosopher king, ventriloquist or perhaps man on the flying trapeze. Fortunately, I was guided back onto the path of the magical world of music.

I moved to L.A. because I didn't want to be in New York anymore. And I knew if I wanted to act, it would have to be in one of those places.

At 17 I was graduating and didn't know what to do. I was seriously contemplating going to Melbourne to play Aussie football.

I'm still a fanatical fan of Porto, and I always will be, but a footballer's career is short, and I have to make the most of all the opportunities that I get.

I haven't always made all of the right decisions from a career perspective, but things worked out in the end.