Stumbled Quotes

On making "The Lord of the Rings": "Looking back, I think we were a bit naive. At the beginning I don`t think anybody had any idea how difficult or complicated it would be. We somehow went into it thinking we could do it. And then we`ve stumbled along just taking each day at a time."

I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad`s restaurant in San Diego. (June 30, 2003)

I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school-and I`m still deferred.

(And how did he recover the patience that allowed him to await the arrival of songs for his 21st century trio of brilliant, contemplative, philosophical and socially conscious albums?) I just walked away from (the commercial career) and let it dismantle itself, ... I bit the bullet and crossed over that threshold to the realization that I may not be a big star in this thing. Maybe my path is something else. So I just started driving my kids to school and looking out after them. I stumbled onto a fantastic woman and built a relationship and became more solid inside myself and went back to work with a different mind-set, which is to please myself, because it`s the only way I can be original.

I stumbled on this little scene. And little by little, that scene took over my life, ... You could make a living being a blues musician. There were a lot of clubs where you could play this type of music every night. And a lot of roots rock clubs, and bands like the Holmes Brothers, Chris Whitley and Blues Traveler playing opposite sides of the street corner. And a lot of camaraderie. Nobody was thinking of record deals, so there wasn`t any feeling of competition.

It made me look like I all of a sudden stumbled upon my heritage. It`s not like that. You don`t stumble upon your heritage. It`s there, just waiting to be explored and shared. But what you need is a sign that somebody wants to share this with you.

It happened very quickly. I`m not sure what happened. I came down and felt a sharp pain. I kind of stumbled back and I really didn`t know how hurt I was until I tried to take a step and my knee just felt a little shaky.

When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.

We stumbled into a utility that we`ve got to get relocated, ... That`s why we can`t start driving the (beams yet).

He`s an amazing horse. No horse I`ve ever seen in any race stumbled like that. And I don`t know any horse stayed up after going that close to the ground. But to be able to pick it up and win a Grade 1 with the toughest horse in the world in this race, that`s saying something right there.