Unconventional Route Quotes

I think '205 Live' is the ultimate underdog story. This isn't a knock on any other brands; you have your stars on 'Raw,' you have your stars on 'SmackDown Live,' and I almost feel like NXT already has this amazing face to continue building stars, but '205 Live,' that is not the case. There is no foundation. We are not capitalizing off of stars.

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

I didn't go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and working so hard the way a lot of people do and did. It was just an overnight kind of thing.

Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went to Rada. And far fewer Etonians - certainly when I was there - went to Cambridge. I don't know whether it's the same now. Most people I knew went to Oxford, because it seemed more of an easy bridge.

I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go to work for a newspaper and support a kid that way. But the funny thing is, that detour became the most important step in my developing as a novelist.

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

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

For me the Everest solo was the icing on the cake of my climbs: the highest mountain in the world, during a monsoon, and as far as possible even on a new route, of course without oxygen.

College wasn't something I saw myself doing.

Anytime you kind of take the road that I've taken, people don't know what to expect.

For a long time, I thought, 'I'm not a TV presenter,' but now I realise there's no typical route into this business.

Life gave me a weird path to walk and it wasn't a very traditional path and that's good, I enjoyed it greatly. But I don't think that it was anybody's traditional definition of success but I really am thankful for it.

I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.

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

He goes his way. We travel a spiral. The quickest way is sometimes the longest.

Mine has been a pretty strange path.

I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.

I didn't take a conventional path.

I just figured, 'I don't want to go to university anymore,' so I went to Stockholm. I went into this teaching school and after one year I got a part in a soap opera in Stockholm. It's called 'Rederiet.'

And since I have become an actor, not one person has asked me what degree I got.

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.

You'd never plan a career like I've had.

It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original.

I think that I always thought that if my uncle was on Broadway, then I must inherently have a good voice. I don't think that for a while I did. Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.

I grew up in Oldham and moved to Manchester and London. I didn't go to drama school. I just did a B-Tech.