Personal Circumstance Quotes

Keep in mind that in 1975, when you became a cook, it was because you were between two things: you were between getting out of the military and... going to jail. Anybody could be a cook, just like anybody could mow the lawn.

I didn't study writing or drama or anything like that... that was not really a viable route for me.

If I hadn't have fallen pregnant by my then-boyfriend, I would probably still be living in London doing the celebrity scene.

I never had a car in high school or college.

If I'd gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois.

Not everyone can be an orphan.

I never made conscious choices. There were times in my life that I chose the first job that came along because I was broke. I think that there were maybe a handful of times that I had a choice. In recent years, Ive had more of a choice, and its been very nice to have that choice, but most of the time, you just hope that theres another job after this one.

I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that.

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.

No one can control his own opinion or his own belief. My belief was forced upon me by my surroundings. I am the product of all circumstances that have in any way touched me.

I actually ended up in fashion as opposed to sport because I needed the money. And it turned out that it tapped all my skills.

I'm a dog person, but I don't have a pet.

The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work. And I didn't think about the material as much. But sometimes I've thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn't work out.

It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.

I never thought acting would be my life. I only started doing it because I needed something to occupy my weekends after I dislocated my knee and couldn't play sport.

But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess.

The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

All power within the microcosm of my world was held and wielded by people who look like me. Plus, I think Nigerians all have this sense that they are better than everyone, including white people. So I have the privilege of a certain distance. It may just be that. So in a sense, I can't claim that as any ability that I have, simply a matter of circumstance.