Prabhu Deva Quotes

I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.

Everything I've done I've just fallen into.

It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.

The beauty about my career is that none of it was really calculated.

I didn't have any ambition to be president. It was fate. The people found me.

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.

Cricket was never my first choice. I never wanted to be a sportsperson. It just happened. It was destiny.

If I look back, I think most of the things I did - the films, the books, the collaborations with these magazines - were mostly by accident.

All the films that I did, I didn't plan them. They just came to me.

I never dreamt that I would do all the things that I have done. But things just happened to me all the time.

Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Selling potato chips was obvious, as it was a family business. When friends suggested I should try theatre, I gave it a shot. Then I did a lot of advertisements, and then movies happened.

Nothing I ever did I expected to do. It just kind of happened.

I got into the movies by accident. When I got an offer, I thought, 'Let's try this, too.' Everything in my life has happened by trial and error. I didn't even think I would win the Miss India title, so where's the question of thinking I'd come this far.

I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.

I was a guy who showed up for work and took the chance for finding out whether I could do it or not... I'd like to think I made my success not at the expense of anyone. Success was accidental.

I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.

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

I didn't want to escape my life and become a big actress and live my dreams. That was never the way it was; it was just these amazing opportunities that happened.

I am a great respector of fate.

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

I feel like some of the best roles that I've gotten to play I could've never preconceived. These things happen to you in an unexpected fashion, so it's hard to pre-imagine what that would be because some of the best opportunities I've had I could've never anticipated or expected.

I am not very ambitious by nature, and movies happened to me by chance.

My life has been a series of slightly happy accidents.

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.

Nothing was planned in my career.