When I first got into acting, I never had any long-term goals, never had any plan. I just thought it would be a good way to make some extra money.
I'd done acting at a local drama school on Saturdays. I just enjoyed it. It never entered my mind I could possibly do it for a career.
Comedy was an easy choice for me because I didn't have a career.
Honestly, 'Parenthood' was not what I planned. I didn't plan to do another drama. I didn't plan to play a single mom. I didn't plan, even, to do an ensemble show. But I hadn't found anything I liked as much. I just connected to the show.
It was never really my plan to become a filmmaker.
Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers. I'm just on a journey. Wherever I run across a job, I say, 'Okay, I'll do that.'
I never set out to be a businessman
Songwriting was always my 'plan B'. I didn't even know that songwriting was a job until my late teens!
I never thought I'd end up coaching. It wasn't the plan.
I wasn't one of those people who had some grand plan to become Prime Minister. I'm a normal person. When I was being foolish in my twenties, when I was at university, I wasn't thinking I was going to become an MP.
Acting was never planned.
I became an actor by accident, not by design.
Nothing is a career move. Everything I've done this year has so not been a career move.
My career has been a level of serendipity all along. I've never planned anything out more than a few years. All the places we lived - the 12, 13 countries - and the companies I worked for were a combination of circumstances.
Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.
I never thought I would have any particular career in movies at all.
I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't career-oriented in any way. It was more fun and therapeutic, so I never really thought of it as something I would end up doing. I was more convinced I was going to be a painter.
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.
Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor.
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that's the last thing I wanted.
My story about becoming an actor is a completely non-romantic one. I became an actor because my parents were actors, and it seemed like a very... I knew I was going to act all my life, but I didn't know that I was going to be a professional actor. I thought I was just going to work as an actor every now and then.
I don't think anybody planned for me to be an actor. I didn't. I didn't know this was what I was going to do.
Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.
A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn't like that for me. I didn't think of it as a job or a career - it was just something that was constant.
I think I always knew I wasn't gonna have a regular job.
