Unforeseen Career Quotes

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.

I never took lessons. And I never aspired to be a singer until I was one in a band.

This is totally unexpected. I thought I'd be in the NBA or the NFL. I never thought baseball. It's kind of like a surprise. I'm happy it happened.

I didn't plan to be a comedian. I didn't plan to be a drag queen. It just kind of evolved.

Actually, the books were never a planned career path.

It's very strange. I can't go anywhere without somebody stopping me, which is so cool that I get to connect to people that I never might've ever spoken to, or they have an impetus to speak to me. It's created a career that I wasn't sure if I'd ever really have.

I never really planned on making action films. It just kind of happened.

I never wanted to end up in entertainment; that wasn't the goal.

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me.