Bipasha Basu Quotes

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

I never thought I could model, and I certainly never thought about acting. It's just something that happened to me.

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

No, I was going to college and got discovered.

This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.

I have never struggled for anything in my life because I never thought I will be an actress. Film just walked up to my house with 'Abodh.'

I didn't intend to even become an actor. I was studying fashion, and I think acting just happened by chance. It really felt more like I was watching a movie from outside, like it was happening to someone else. It's been a great journey so far.

So to answer your question, I'm not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake.

Actually, the books were never a planned career path.

I didn't really want to act. Gerard Depardieu discovered me when I was 14 and asked if I wanted to make movies and I said, 'Why not?'

My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me.

I kind of drifted into acting through a series of coincidences.

I never really thought about acting when I was little; I was just getting a haircut at a salon when I was 10, and a woman approached my mom about putting me forward for an audition!

I was actually in New Zealand studying, and I just got discovered. I was with my friend shopping, and this woman came up to me and was like, 'Would you like to come in? I own an agency.'

I can't say that I wanted to be an actress, it just happened along the way. I did not even know that I would be doing modelling but that also just happened.

I wanted to go into art history. Acting fell into my lap when a neighbor took pictures of me and showed them to an agent.

Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.

I kind of fell into acting. I was very lucky.

I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered.

I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency.

I can't speak for anyone else, but in my case, I sort of fell into acting.

Getting into television was a total fluke.

Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.

I started as a director and just fell upon acting.