Sandra Bullock Quotes

I'm only a freelance TV presenter and, in many ways, it's all just been a massive fluke.

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

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

I feel blessed. I never wanted to be an actor. It just happened all by chance and fate. I was studying to be a teacher.

I did have a lucky thing going on there in my throat.

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.

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 thought, 'Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I auditioned for a soap!'

For me, modelling has been an advantage because if I hadn't been modelling, I would never have been spotted as an actress. I didn't have any intention of becoming an actress.

Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.

This is going to sound terrible, but once I moved to New York, I never did a civilian job. I was extraordinarily lucky.

It fell into my lap. I grew up doing dance classes. And one day, a film production company contacted my dance school looking for background dancers. I wasn't looking for it. It just happened. And I found myself on set. And that was that.

It was not like I planned even to be a choreographer. It just happened to me somehow.

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

I am somebody who is very lucky. 'Kaanta Laga' just fell into my lap and even 'Baby Come Naa.'

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.

If you looked at my resume in the years leading up to Flickr, I worked in a dive shop in landlocked Arkansas; I was a starving artist. I just arrived at the thing I love to do accidentally.

Sometimes, things just fall into your lap, and that's pretty incredible.

It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.

I was already 50 when I started in television.

Everything in my life happened by coincidence. Even my role in 'Delhi Belly.'

A lot of things in my career have happened by chance.

The journey from engineering to acting just happened. I guess some things are meant to be.

I think I've managed to Forrest Gump my way though life.