Quotes About Journey

I was doing theatre when somebody noticed me and referred me to Raju Hirani. And Raju saw me on camera, and there, I was a heavy guy with long hair. But I got selected for the role of Joy in '3 Idiots.'

Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses.

My first audition for 'The Magicians' came up in conversation with a close friend who, right then, handed me the first book.

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

With 'Hannibal,' it's almost like the music is part of the furniture, so as a character goes from one room to another room, or we go from one place to another or whatever, the music is just going with it the whole time the same way that the audience is sort of tracking it and following along.

Cricket was never my first choice. I never wanted to be a sportsperson. It just happened. It was destiny.

I've always wanted to act; I just didn't know how to get into it. It kind of just happened. Dance brought me into it.

I don't want to actually die. I want to see what happens in life. I want to see where it goes.

Becoming an astronaut was a little bit of happenstance for me.

This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.

The older I get, the happier I am with the way my career has gone. Although, in many ways, it's been through no design of my own.

Don't think you're going to be happy when you get something. You have to be happy on your way to happy.

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

Cycling is a good school for life. It makes you hard and gives you ambition, but you can never say you've arrived.

Especially in writing love stories, there's always the assumption that once you've said 'I do,' once you get to the point where you're married, well, the hard part is over.

I consider myself an alumnus of Hard Rock Cafe.

It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder.

Wayward Pines, I tell you, is a strange place, and the entry is always the hardest part. I was just going along for the ride.

I'm just a girl from Harlem who ended up in the right place at the right time.

I feel like 'Harlem River' was me putting one foot out the door of New York, and 'Still Life' is between Point A and Point B. It's the grey area.

'Harlem River' is about the Harlem River in uptown Manhattan. I don't know much to say about it. I came upon that river a couple of years ago. I was doing a walk the length of Manhattan, from the top to the bottom, and I had never seen that river before.

After I finished school, I went to JJ College of Architecture and then to Harvard. I did my B.A. with a major in filmmaking.

I'm in this for the long haul. I've been making music my whole life.

Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.