Stephen Hillenburg Quotes

I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'

I never thought I would end up being an actress. I thought I really was going to do serious stuff like law or politics.

I'd never planned on being a model.

I always wanted to be a film-maker when I was younger, not an actor. I was an eight-year-old who dreamed of being a writer on 'The Simpsons,' which was a weird dream to have. But I started taking acting classes as a way to learn how to direct actors and I sort of fell in love with it.

Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'

When I was 25, if you'd have said I was going to be a commentator, that would seem like, 'Oh, my God. That's a huge step down.'

I'm a huge fan of animation, and just the arts in general - anything that emanates from someone's mind and soul and is capable of touching other people's minds and souls.

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.

I wasn't even going to do acting. I don't know how it even happened, to be honest. I was going to go into psychology or something like that. Or business. And then some moment of madness took over and I decided, 'Oh, I'm gonna go to London and try to be an actor.'

I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.

I started out as a music teacher; I never planned on becoming an actress.

I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

I really wasn't planning on being a solo artist.

I never had any interest in politics. I never would have gone into politics except that when my brother died, my father insisted.

I studied political science, and when I fell into acting in college - it was just a total fluke that I became an actor. I ended up changing my degree and went for a double major and missed political science by two classes.

When I started out, I wanted to be a serious actor. I never thought I'd get into comedy.

I never expected to become a director. It never occurred to me to come to America, to Hollywood. It's all been a wonderful accident. I'm still amazed every time I finish a film.

It never was my plan to get into television.

I never wanted to be an actress. Acting wasn't in my mind. It wasn't in my calculations.

Art is definitely a passion of mine, but one that I couldn't afford to keep-up post-graduation, so I turned to DJing to pay the bills.

I never thought about acting, I wanted to be an air hostess.

I started off in the leisure industry and now I find myself as the DIY queen - I'm not quite sure how that happened!

I had never thought I would be an actor.

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

Never, never in my life did I have it in my mind to become an actress or be part of a film.