Amrita Acharia Quotes

I look back - I think I am an accidental actor.

I never really planned on doing a television series.

I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels.

I can't speak for anyone else, but in my case, I sort of fell into acting.

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 intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.

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.

I started as a director and just fell upon acting.

When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.

It never occurred to me to be an actor.

Initially, I got into the business to do drama. I never really thought I would be doing sci-fi films.

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 came to acting quite late. I tried not to be an actor.

In high school, theater was all I ever wanted to do. I didn't see that I was going to set it aside for so many years and take a right turn into television. Of course, wanting to do theater is something you hear a lot from actors. I think I've been embarrassed to be in that big cliche.

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.

I honestly was supposed to always be a wrestler. I was never hired into any business as an announcer. That was just something I ended up falling into.

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

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

I didn't ever intend to or want to be an actor. I'm not one of those people of whom they say, 'If you can't live without it, that's the only reason you should be an actor.' It was kind of a sideline that became my whole life.

I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.

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

I never thought I would become an actor. When I started out, I never thought I would come so far. Acting was not my passion. When I experienced the highs of being an actor, I started liking it, and it gradually became my passion.