I was going to design sports cars, but my father came to my college to visit me. At the time he was making a picture in Sweden and he took me there with him. I got to see Ingmar Bergman's company and I thought, 'Gee, filmmaking is a lot more fun than sports cars,' so I decided to follow him and go into acting.
‐‐ James Cromwell
I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.
‐‐ Leonard Susskind
I was going to fight for what I wanted first, and that was being in L.A. and being a Laker. L.A. was the first place that came to my mind. That's where my heart was at.
‐‐ Lamar Odom
I was going to France to do my masters and my Ph.D., but I didn't know how to say, 'bonjour.' You really feel like a baby, starting everything from scratch.
‐‐ Zeresenay Alemseged
I was going to get a degree in economics and be a teacher. But I couldn't afford to pay for the education. So I just got the MBA and not the doctorate. I loved it at Bain, and I've been there ever since.
‐‐ Stephen Pagliuca
I was going to get drafted, but I didn't really want to go into the Army.
‐‐ Rick James
I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another.
‐‐ Michael Bergin
I was going to go and do what I should do as a filmmaker and make slightly larger films each time, learn my craft, make mistakes and solve them.
‐‐ Colin Trevorrow
I was going to go make a film in Greece. if they caught you with this much marijuana, they threw you in jail, no questions asked, and I was trying to stuff it in my deodorant bottles. I thought, what I am doing?
‐‐ Dyan Cannon
I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.
‐‐ George Lucas
I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
‐‐ Sam Tsui
I was going to go to Macchu Picchu and then I just ended up working the whole year.
‐‐ Charlize Theron
I was going to go to school to become a neurological surgeon.
‐‐ Angel Haze
I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.
‐‐ Rita Rudner
I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.
‐‐ Gene Tierney
I was going to make movies. I was the one in the family who was always rolling the video camera, making movies of my brothers around town, and then screening them for my parents. I still would love to make movies someday... that's something that really means a lot to me, and I know I'll have the chance to do it one day.
‐‐ Joe Jonas
I was going to McDonald's and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me - it wouldn't even faze them. Or I'd sit up at Denny's or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me.
‐‐ Eminem
I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - Lana Del Rey reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.
‐‐ Lana Del Rey
I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me.
‐‐ Curtis Armstrong
I was going to move to New York after college and had no interest in pilot season. I'd seen what happened on TV shows because of my dad, and I didn't want to open myself up to that. But 'Pretty Little Liars' had a very early audition, and my agents encouraged me to go even though I didn't think it would be my thing.
‐‐ Troian Bellisario
I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.
‐‐ Patrick Stump
I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.
‐‐ David Rakoff
I was going to school thinking I was going to do something entirely different, thought acting was just a hobby at that point, met Stanley Kubrick and was like, 'Whoa, this can be an art form, and you can really move people the way you do simply by acting.'
‐‐ Vinessa Shaw
I was going to shave it. It went in two parts. I got a bob first but it kept falling all over my face. Then it was off, short. The main reason it was long was because my mother cut it short when I was little and I was trying to make up for that.
‐‐ Cathy Freeman
I was going to show my kids that no matter what happened with their parents, parole officers and other teachers, I wouldn't give up on them. I let them know it matters to me that you come to class, it matters to me that you try, it matters to me when you succeed.
‐‐ Erin Gruwell
I was going to start a housekeeping business at one point because I'm really good at cleaning houses.
‐‐ Britt Robertson
I was going to Studio 54 when I was 12 years old. It's true. It's crazy.
‐‐ James Gray
I was gone so much in my first marriage. I love the moments when I engage with my youngest daughter now. It's not my thing to sit on the ground and play tea party, but I'll do it because it's a moment that will stick with me forever.
‐‐ Tim Allen
I was gonna be a cosmetologist. I didn't really want to. I wanted to be in a band. It kind of worked out.
‐‐ Brendon Urie
I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
‐‐ Ted Turner
I was gonna throw the first pitch at a Mets game, but there was a rain delay. So I'm waiting for it to stop, and the team's manager, Willie Randolph, comes by. Now he's already intimidating to begin with. But he comes over to me and says, 'If you screw this up, they will boo you.' And I said 'Thanks.'
‐‐ Julia Stiles
I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a singer and I never thought of doing anything else.
‐‐ Kim Carnes
I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.
‐‐ Khaled Hosseini
I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.
‐‐ Max Walker
I was good at keeping my mother from crying.
‐‐ Bernie Mac
I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold
I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way outta my league. I realized this very quickly.
‐‐ Sam Trammell
I was good at most subjects at school. Looking back, I was a proper boffin! Now, the thing I'm really good at is poker.
‐‐ Stormzy
I was good at swimming until everyone started to grow. The best swimmers are really tall with great big shoulders, and that just isn't us. But then a big, powerful swimmer isn't going to be so good on the bike and the run.
‐‐ Jonathan Brownlee
I was Google's first woman engineer.
‐‐ Marissa Mayer
I was governor of Kansas when Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts.
‐‐ Kathleen Sebelius
I was graduated in 1940 with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Social Science but a major in Mathematics, a paradoxical combination that was prognostic of my future interests.
‐‐ Kenneth Arrow
I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.
‐‐ John Hume
I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations.
‐‐ Ralph Fiennes
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
‐‐ Mark Twain
I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.
‐‐ Lydia M. Child
I was greatly influenced by 'The Goons' and 'Monty Python' reconstituting what comedy was - it could come from a funny word, not just a set up and a pay-off. I liked the zaniness; they were satirical, slightly saucy and very literary in their references.
‐‐ Sanjeev Bhaskar
I was green. All I knew was to walk my dog and go to church.
‐‐ Jessica Hahn
I was grounded for all of my childhood. Not most - all.
‐‐ Megan Fox