Quotes About Fulfillment

Playing eight years, never making the playoffs, you feel like you're running on a treadmill that's going nowhere. You're like, 'Is this it? Is this all football is?'

We should seek to love our lives and live fully, but not to extend them indefinitely. We should love our children exuberantly, but not cling to them or curtail their freedoms. We should treasure the material world without seeking to own and control it.

I never thought that I would treasure doing my job, and I have reached that point. I've gotten to a point where it's like the priesthood: this is what I was called to do.

If you're too disciplined, it can mess up your mind. You need to have that treat for yourself.

I'm happy about working; I'm happy about gracing the stage and coming out and making people laugh. I never treat it like a job or feel that way. It's the best thing ever to me, and I feel like a kid in a candy store.

Being old is such a treat!

Then to have your baby playing at the school you played at and having him play well is a special treat.

Life has always treated me well. I therefore won't mind leaving it behind.

Because I have always felt privileged. I have been able to do what I love, I have always been treated well, I have always been paid well so that's why. I feel that I owe something; that I need to return something. It's always been a great pleasure but nevertheless I do feel this responsibility.

Since I came here I've been treated awesome, in all aspects. I really enjoy playing here.

Mary doesn't want to be treated as Mary J. Blige: she just wants to be Mary.

That was something that I learned: It's actually okay if the way that I do my best is when I'm treated well.

I want to be happy. We all want to be happy. I want to be treated like a normal human being, but I also want to be on stage in a fancy dress, so I'm trying to find a happy medium.

When I'm treating myself, it's a full-on burrito, all loaded up!

I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth.

No one can reap the fruit before planting the trees.

I started doing '30 Rock' and started writing 'Mystery Team' at the beginning of that. While I was doing 'Mystery Team,' I started practicing stand-up. While I was doing stand up, I got 'Community.' It's like I planted trees six years ago, and now they have fruit.

I just do my day job and go home and plant trees.

Bubbly roles and running around trees don't satiate an actor's quest for the best.

All I ever wanted to do when I was a kid was be in a Broadway musical and to be in 'Star Trek,' and I can finally say I've done that.

Star Trek is perhaps the best thing that ever happened to me, in a career sense.

Star Trek has brought so much of what I want within my grasp.

The message of 'Star Trek,' if there is one, seems to be that we should try to live up to the very best that we're capable of.

The question always arose from both fans and friends was, 'Have you ever done 'Star Trek,' and if not, would you want to?' And the answer was always, 'No, I haven't, and yes, I would love to!' So now, at the age of 57, I can finally say, 'I'm in the new Star Trek!' And I'm so excited about it!