Quotes About Fulfillment

Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating.

I don't do something I won't enjoy just for the money. I do it for the fun, for the joy of working.

I love working if it's with people who are capable of having a good time. People with a little bit of enjoyment of what they do. If it's enormous pressure, and people feel that their lives are at stake, then it's agony. So I try to pick projects where I feel like I'm going to avoid those traps.

The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.

When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.

I don't see much difference between living and working. I think living is a part of my work. People often say, 'How can you work so much?' I don't think about it as work. I think of it as a way to live.

I have to stay positive and try to find time to do what I want to do while working at the same time.

The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.

Great people want to work on things that matter. Inevitably, a great person working on imaginary work will turn into an unsatisfied person.

What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.

I'm not at my best when I'm not working - I'm certainly not at my happiest. Acting will always be my first love.

Throughout my 20s I spent a lot of time just playing and not really working, but fortunately for me I continued to get just enough work, and have a reason to wake up in the morning. I really empathize with some of my peers who had success in the early years then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.

When you found a company, you feel a deep sense of responsibility for it. I'll care about Dell even after I'm dead. So this is a pretty personal process. And when you're doing what you love, and it's working, you don't get tired working what other people might consider long hours or crazy schedules. It's just fun. It's energizing.

The things that make me happy most are my family and working.

I thoroughly enjoyed working on 'Immortals.'

Just because you get to a certain number doesn't mean you have to roll up into a ball and wait for the grim reaper. We were put on this earth to do something! If you stop using your brain, at any age, it is going to stop working. It's like if you stop using your hand, it will atrophy. I think doing nothing is a curse.

If I'm home, I'll be happy. And if I'm around family, and if I'm working on projects with friends, I don't know what else I'd want to be doing.

There are 365 days in the year, and as a working actor, you might only work 17 of them. You might only need to do two ads and you can afford to live for the year, but it doesn't make for a very satisfactory or fulfilling life. The point isn't to not work - it's to work.

'Wings' offered me the rare opportunity to be a full-time dad and a working actor for eight years.

I'd like to be a steadily working actor and to do as many things as possible. I'm really enjoying the life.

The best part is it's a dream come true. I've always wanted to be a working actor, and the good part of it... it's all good! I work long hours, but it's amazing. They pay me. That's amazing! I get to kiss Keri Russell, and that ain't too bad.

As a working actor, all I want to do is work. That's it. It's terrifying when you don't work. It's very hard when you don't work. There have been times when I've been out of work for like six months. I feel theatre to me is like manna.