H. Jon Benjamin Quotes

I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.

I've never been a career builder. I didn't go to drama school and hardly went to any school at all.

I didn't plan to be a comedian. I didn't plan to be a drag queen. It just kind of evolved.

I drifted into acting, and I've drifted into my career, and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete.

I never went to a drama school or anything. I just gave it my best shot, and everyone seemed to like it, so I carried on doing it.

I didn't go to acting school.

That's how I learned how to act. I learned by doing it. I didn't start acting until I was 37.

I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.

Twitter wasn't planned. It just happened.

It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.

I have never had a plan. Things happen to me, and, of course, I make friends who later say, 'Hey, you know who would be good for this? McKean would be good for this.' And they hire me, and if they like me, they hire me again, or the word gets out.

I've never had an acting lesson in my life. I don't know whether that's a good or bad thing.

I never planned to act in Malayalam. 'Yakshiyum Njanum' just happened and everything else just followed.

You just do the roles that you want to do and that you're lucky enough to get cast in, and then eventually you have that career. I feel like you can't control it; it just happens organically.

I never took lessons. And I never aspired to be a singer until I was one in a band.

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

I never trained in any acting, other than just joking around and doing my own dinky little videos.

I had an advantage over a lot of people who had gone to school and earned degrees in writing and had learned the rules for writing, so to speak. My style was just to tell a story but to tell it well, and that has worked out for me so far.

I was a funny kid growing up, and I did improv in college and went to Pratt Institute, but I did it very informally. It was just me and some of my friends goofing around on campus.

I haven't had any formal training, but I guess dance comes naturally to us - people from the north. See how much we dance at weddings.

If you grow up playing in church, it removes a lot of the boundaries that other musicians might have, growing up with sheet music or whatever.

When I was doing it, I just thought, 'I'm going to do this because it's fun.' I wasn't writing for a publisher or a publishing model; I didn't really think about it, but then, somehow, it worked out in my favor.

For me, music is a byproduct of this process - the human process - and the fact that I've managed to eke out a career with it is a happy accident more than any strategy.

I just kind of fell into acting.