Unplanned Journey Quotes

My own strategy is to find a car, or the nearest equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it's going and follow it. I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.

Actually, I didn't take up acting. Rather, acting chose me.

I look back - I think I am an accidental actor.

I'm an escapist. I'm not a planner; I've never made a decision about anything in my life. The good thing about Africa is that you can escape forever. You can do what you want without someone looking over your shoulder.

When I went to San Francisco in that cold late spring of 1967, I did not even know what I wanted to find out, and so I just stayed around a while and made a few friends.

It is difficult to understand why I am so famous. I never thought I wanted to be an actress. I never thought about it. I think it is my destiny to be in this business.

I didn't intend to even become an actor. I was studying fashion, and I think acting just happened by chance. It really felt more like I was watching a movie from outside, like it was happening to someone else. It's been a great journey so far.

I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?

My life has never been a part of a big plan. It's more of an unfolding adventure.

For me, I have never walked a path that has been carefully crafted or charted. I have gone into territory unknown on many an occasion.

I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.

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.

My life and career have been a big improvisation.

I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'

It never was my plan to get into television.

My writing's like a journey. I'll know some of the stops ahead of time, and I'll make some of those stops and some of them I won't. Some will be a moot point by the time I get there. You know every script will have four to six basic scenes that you're going to do. It's all the scenes where your characters really come from.

I have made a career of bumbling around places, stumbling on landmarks and generally being quite haphazard and shambolic about the way I go about things.

I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.

I'm having so much fun, I'm just going to go where it takes me.

I've always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of - I just sung a lot.

I first came across Chadron, Nebraska, by accident in 1994.

My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.

I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called "The Valley Full of Clouds." Writing a novel is as if you are going off on a journey across a valley. The valley is full of mist, but you can see the top of a tree here and the top of another tree over there. And with any luck you can see the other side of the valley. But you cannot see down into the mist. Nevertheless, you head for the first tree.