Barkhad Abdi quote: "I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I've only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it."

I didn't make music videos in order to make a movie. Music videos were the goal for me, so it wa...
ANTON CORBIJN

I was never that into the movies. Never. Even as a youngster. I became interested in movie music onl...
JOHN WILLIAMS

I've never been in the music industry, only acting.
VICTORIA JACKSON

I was born in India - but never really lived there.
AASIF MANDVI

Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor.
SARA PAXTON

But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER

What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER

All I ever wanted was to perform, make music, make videos.
CHERYL COLE

I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becomin...
CASSANDRA WILSON

I've never been passionate about just music, I've never seen myself going into music in that...
GRANT GUSTIN

Acting has been my life since I was five, and everything has just fallen into place. I've never ...
ERIN MORAN

I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater studen...
AASIF MANDVI

I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON

I was born in a blender.
LORNA LUFT

I was born 'neath a clouded star.
JULIA WARD HOWE

I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.
GEORGETTE MOSBACHER

I was born to be funny.
BUDDY HACKETT

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL

I've never felt like I've exactly traded on my looks. When I was a teenager, I was an ultra ...
ANNA KENDRICK

I was born a character actor.
CHARLES DURNING

Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.
ZAK ORTH

I was born Roman, and I'll die Roman. I'll never leave this team or my city.
FRANCESCO TOTTI

I began working with a family camera. It was called a Kodak Autographic, which was one of those thin...
LEONARD NIMOY

I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I'...
LAURA FRASER

I'd never thought about acting as a job. I was an engineer; I was in science and technology. I l...
ATO ESSANDOH

I was never an ingenue. I've always just been a character actor. When I was younger, it was a re...
KATHY BATES

I've been acting since I was 7, and I always knew it was what I wanted to go into.
AUTUMN REESER

I was an accidental actor. I was never formally trained.
DAVID SOUL

I've never revised my opinion of myself as an actor. I've always thought I was as good as my...
TROY DONAHUE

I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
BARRY BONDS

I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
JOAN OF ARC

I'm not into just one thing; I always felt like I had to have my hand in everything revolving ar...
TRAVIS SCOTT

I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.
SAOIRSE RONAN

I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids' ...
RUPERT GRAVES

I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always kn...
ALEX WINSTON

I was just watching baby videos of me and I was obviously an exhibitionist.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT

Modelling was never a career option for me; it was always a hobby. I was modelling while I was pursu...
KRITI SANON

I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
WENDY COPE

I was born in August, no July, 1908.
SATCHEL PAIGE

I was born in the technology era.
MALUMA

I was born with an evil face.
BARRY SLOANE

I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
DAN FUTTERMAN

I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.
LINCOLN CHAFEE

By ancestry, I was born to rule.
NELSON MANDELA

I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.
CAROLYN KIZER

I was born in Homestead, Florida.
CHRISSY METZ

I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii.
STEVE CASE

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
JESSE JACKSON

I was born into a family of preachers.
DAVID SOUL

I was raised on NBC television.
DAN HARMON

Hey, I was raised in the church.
CHEECH MARIN

Leadership is something I was born with.
CARMELO ANTHONY

After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I'...
LARA LOGAN

The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acti...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about di...
JASON ALEXANDER

I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older...
MARIA BELLO

I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was ...
VICTORIA BECKHAM

I've always been terrified about not having money. I've been a big saver and a big earner. W...
CHERIE LUNGHI

I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I di...
THOMAS DOLBY

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON

I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.
IDRIS ELBA

After I graduated high school and came out to do 'Buffy,' I was enrolled at my mom's uni...
ELIZA DUSHKU

I've always been conservative. I was born that way.
RALPH HALL

The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. ...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, ...
LANA DEL REY

I love people. I was born loving people.
BETSY PALMER

Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55.
CHARLES KEATING

I started casting. I cast music videos, but I kept getting fired from jobs because I was iconoclasti...
LEE DANIELS

When I was out there I was never ever alone, there was always a team of people behind me, in mind if...
ELLEN MACARTHUR

I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things....
ALEXANDER LEBEDEV

Two of my grandfathers had been artists, lifelong oil painters, so I was exposed to art very young. ...
SUSAN VREELAND

When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever ha...
STEVE BUSCEMI

I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that...
VANILLA ICE

I've never really socialized; I've always been anti-social and preferred to be at home. I wa...
MEGAN FOX

I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am.
ANNA LEE

I would have been interested, but it was never an option, so life goes on,
CHAD MILLER

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
HENRY JAMES

People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the bigg...
TIGER WOODS

I was born in that family. So I don't know the difference between born as an actor's son and...
RAM CHARAN

I never did anything as an actor that I was extremely proud of.
DAVE MADDEN

I've always been an improviser. I was one before I knew even what the word was... And acting, th...
ALAN ARKIN

I don't ever in my life remember going into any game feeling like I was an underdog. I certainly hav...
LLOYD CARR

I like Velvet Underground, but I was never really hardcore into them. I like them, and I like Nico, ...
ERIC ANDRE

To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
WILSON MIZNER

I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.
QUINTON AARON

I was born as a soldier and will die as one.
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK

My mom is from Texas, but I was raised in Florida.
KATE UPTON

I was born and bred to be a great flirt.
CYBILL SHEPHERD

I was born with a fierce need for independence.
MICHELLE WILLIAMS

I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.
AMBER HEARD

I was born to travel and write verse.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER

As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded.
DEBORAH SAMPSON

Beirut is where I was born and raised.
REEM ACRA

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
J. PAUL GETTY

I was a very religious kid. I was raised as an Episcopalian.
STEVEN SEAGAL

I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife.
LIZ PHAIR

I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.
CHARLES OLSON

I was raised to be some kind of artist.
ELLAR COLTRANE

My mom says I was born screaming.
ELLE KING

I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative....
HAROLD PRINCE

I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I've only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it.

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