Chris Squire Quotes

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

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

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.

Once you find what you like, it's like it worked yesterday, it works today, it'll work tomorrow.

A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience.

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

We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day.

There was never any career plan. When 'Red Dwarf' started I thought we were doing a curious little sitcom on BBC2, I didn't think I was becoming an actor. I didn't see that 21 years later I'd still be talking about it, let alone filming a new one. For me everything's always been an accident.

So to answer your question, I'm not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake.

Actually, the books were never a planned career path.

There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.

You need continuity. You need a commitment and continuity.

It was not like I planned even to be a choreographer. It just happened to me somehow.

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

When you have an opportunity to do a series, you want to stick it out. You don't know when you're going to get another one like that again.

My film career was never planned.

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

I've had a group ever since '36, off and on.

I think fashion is about longevity and doing your work. It isn't about winning or losing. It's about process, keeping it going.

Any planning that I have in my career is totally accidental really.

I've never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I'm here because it happened. But I didn't do anything to make it happen apart from saying 'Yes'

Do the work. Create the character, don't wing it and don't hope for an award or the Red Carpet. At the end of day the people who stay in the line the longest are the people who are good.

Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing.