I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented. – Ted Nelson
I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth. – Zosia Mamet
I thought it was really funny that half the people I autographed things for said, ‘Autograph the back of my phone.’ I was like, ‘What? Really? Seriously?’ They didn’t have anything else. – Willow Shields
I was 9 years old, and this was – well, whenever it was, they paid a thousand bucks. I thought I was going to be rich forever! But I had no thought I would be an actor at that point. – Tim Daly
I thought that I was going to be Mrs. Michael Jackson, but I was ready at 20 and 21 to get married, and he was not even close to getting married or having a girlfriend at that time, but yes, we dated. We dated for a while. – Stephanie Mills
He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer. – Simon Callow
I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though – I didn’t know anything about films. – Vijay Sethupathi
I value my Catholic background very much. It taught me not to be afraid of rigorous thought, for one thing. – Terry Eagleton
I initially thought I was going to be a teacher. Maybe like an elementary teacher or something like that, which would be fun. Maybe someday. – Tyler Oakley
I didn’t believe when I was first told that I have cancer. I thought, ‘How can a young person like me get cancer?’ I thought it could never happen to me. It took me a while to realise that I was diagnosed with cancer. – Yuvraj Singh
I would leave the industry in a moment if I thought I was going to get stuck in one particular area of it. – Tom Goodman-Hill
And I thought I would just share with you what science says today about silicone breast implants. If you have them, you’re healthier than if you don’t. In fact, there’s no science that shows that silicone breast implants are detrimental and, in fact, they make you healthier. – Tom Coburn
I once went to a ‘Star Trek’ convention by mistake – I thought I was going to a ‘Doctor Who’ one. – Sylvester McCoy
I love books, and I love to read, and I had ideas for books that I thought would be neat to read. – Tony DiTerlizzi
Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson, I thought, ‘What am I doing this for? I don’t ever want to be in a job that involves a Bunsen burner.’ – Simon Cowell
But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it’s just something that happened, you know. – Scott Hamilton
I heard a computer scientist the other day refer to playing with the Kinect as ‘storytelling.’ At first I thought that sounded a little high-minded, but after trying a few games I could see what she meant. – Susan Orlean
When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read. – Victor Garber
I think I was the first executive to ever speak at a Greenpeace business conference, in London in 2001. That didn’t play well here at Ford, but I thought it was an important signal to send internally, that these were the kind of issues we needed to be grappling with. – William Clay Ford, Jr.
We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it. – William Griffith Wilson
I grew up with actors, so I never thought of them as anything but human – sort of horribly, inextricably human. – Tim Daly
I never thought I was particularly talented, and to be honest with you, I still don’t. – Willie Aames
I always thought it was sad that you couldn’t get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we sit down with our fans before every show and eat a gourmet meal that we made for them. – Zac Brown
I started playing violin when I was six, so I thought I could be a professional. It wasn’t until I was 15 when I got into acting classes and realized this was what I wanted to do. – Torrey DeVitto
I wanted to be a physical therapist because I had torn up my knee and thought it was interesting with the rehab and whatever. I did kinesiology, and after the first four days of class, I dropped out because I was like, ‘This ain’t the class for me!’ – Thomas Rhett
I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach, but in fact, this is what I like to do. It’s sort of like my handwriting as a movie director. And somewhere along the way, I think I’ve made the decision: I’m going to write in my own handwriting. – Wes Anderson
