Non-Traditional Route Quotes

I didn't grow up wanting to become an actor at all. I wanted to be a sports trainer and I was actually an aerobics instructor.

I left school at 15, didn't pick up my GCSEs, didn't do A-levels, didn't go to uni.

It wasn't a direct route. I began as a freelance reporter. That's an important distinction, because people who rise through the ranks of The New York Times become vetted, conditioned, harassed, and shaped by the institution. That never happened to me.

I never dreamt of the Olympics growing up. It's not something that I watched on TV; it's not something my parents ever talked about.

Maybe I wasn't just the traditional-type person or whatever. I got to the top, but I got there maybe unconventionally. It wasn't just a straight line.

Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.

I ain't on no major. Everything independent. Either way it goes, I am doing me, and I am doing Freddie Gibbs.

Mine has been a pretty strange path.

My career has been a bit strange. I don't think it took the normal route.

I hadn't been to drama school. I hadn't been to university and acted there. I had no qualifications behind me.

I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.

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

I wasn't classically trained as an actor; I wasn't pursuing standup comedy. I really came into it through the back door. And there was a benefit to that, I think, because I wasn't pressing; I wasn't pushing.

I didn't grow up wanting to be an actor, and I didn't go to acting school.

My path has been a little weird. I hope that it can inspire people.

I guess you could say I took the hard route. That doesn't work for everybody, but it's worked out all right for me.

I've had a very unusual background in science - not the usual route of planning on being a scientist from age 3. I think my story shows that success is more about personal motivation and determination than it is about where you were born or what your economic status was.

I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned.

My route is a little bit nontraditional. A lot of the people working in Nashville, they have a model. I don't really fit into that.

I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I'm sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off.

There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you're in a creative sphere, or if you're hungry for experience, then those experiences don't necessarily happen like rungs of a ladder or in a linear way.

Part of the creative journey for me was not to come up the conventional route. I didn't go through drama school. I chose not to. I came from a very working-class area, a child of Nigerian immigrants.

I didn't do it the traditional way of being an assistant first and then becoming a head coach.

I only went to college for one semester, community college outside of Dallas. I got to the end of that and said, 'I'm not doing this anymore,' and moved to L.A. and landed a job.

I came to acting as a sort of fluke. I really enjoy it, but I think I'm different from the people who dreamed about it.