Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

I didn't expect to become an artist. I was not comfortable going out on the road.

You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.

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

I never imagined myself being a rapper.

I never thought I'd be an actor.

Growing up, the last thing I ever thought I'd do is be an entertainer.

Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.

Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.

Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.

When I was 25, if you'd have said I was going to be a commentator, that would seem like, 'Oh, my God. That's a huge step down.'

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

I would have never thought that I'd be doing Chanel.

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.

Yeah I grew up in the public eye. I became a man in the public eye, which is kind of a bizarre thing to come to terms with. Now I'm in my late 20s and I was in my early 20s when I became recognizable. But I think 'Moneyball' represents a very strong shift in my career and becoming an adult and a man.

At 17, I realized that it's going to be a tough decision to make, but I had the clarity of thought to walk out of cricket and try my luck in acting.

But music was never something I saw myself doing.

I never thought I was going to be an actor.

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

If you had asked me in my early 20s or in high school if I was going to wrestle, I would have laughed at you.

I did modelling for five years, then I felt I wanted to do something different and challenging.

I had never thought I would be an actor.

Right after college, I participated in the Miss India contest and then went on to pursue modelling, as that seemed like the logical next step. But pretty soon, I started to feel stagnant in that profession.

To be completely honest, I never thought I could become a model growing up. I actually wanted to be an entertainment journalist.