Danny Huston Quotes

I know this'll sound obnoxious, but acting was very much an accident for me. I didn't have, like, posters of Marlon Brando in my bedroom when I was growing up.

I started as a director very young and fell into acting.

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

I actually came out of drama school and went into two years of working in film and television, which was a happy accident.

I never really planned on doing a television series.

I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.

I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.

When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.

I didn't think I'd ever be an actor.

It's not that acting was something I'd always wanted to do. I had no formal training; I'd never really imagined I'd be an actress. Business was something that had always been in my mind, but when I got into acting, I learned everything on set, and for me at that point, I wanted to excel at what I did.

When I got 'Family Ties', I wasn't even thinking about being an actress. I thought I might become a window dresser.

I played basketball. I went to school and played basketball and was trying to pursue that as a career path and kind of just fell into acting.

After eight years on 'Young and the Restless' and eight years on 'Criminal Minds,' I'm ready for that next phase of my career.

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.

Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.

I did nothing but theater until, I guess, '99. I was all the way through college the first time that I had stepped in front of a camera. And it's weird; it's definitely a transition.

I always thought I'd make films. I didn't think I'd be in them.

I didn't even know I would be an actor; I always wanted to be a cameraman.

I never wanted to be an actor but ended up being one.

I went to an acting class for 3 years. But then I figured out that, since there were already 26,000 actors in SAG (Screen Actors Guild), I could make a better living as a stunt man.

It's crazy. I couldn't believe it going from 'EastEnders' to 'X-Men.' I was just looking to leave and get any job, so when I actually got the job, I was in dreamland.

My memories of the whirlwind '90s are a blur of work schedules. I was completing my B. Com. degree in 1991 when I took to modelling and acting in TV serials. A year later, I found my foothold in movies.

I never thought I'd be an actor.

Films just happened by chance. I had no interest in films or acting as a heroine, but that's a long story.

I was a documentary film-maker for 26 years before I became a full time actor.