Quotes About Fulfillment

I absolutely love what I do and thank my lucky stars for twenty-five years of full-time employment in this business.

I got married at twenty-five and had children right away, so I didn't have the worry that I would never get to have children.

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

Sometimes I really need the money, really need to go straight to work. But if I had the absolute choice - money no object, my mortgage paid off - I'd really just work once or twice a year - but wouldn't everybody! - or at least do a different job sometimes.

My mum was critical in getting me to recognise very early on that although what I was doing was pretty serious, quite selfish, and probably to most people pretty obsessive, there actually was more to life than running quickly twice round a track.

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

A lot of our happiness is derived from experiences, not from buying products. People are twice as happy buying experiences as products. People are happy buying experiences. They don't want something that's commoditised.

I joined the police force with one motivation in mind: to become a high school PE teacher. After a year of working, I realized that a) I was making twice as much money as I would in the teaching profession, and b) I was having too much fun. I stuck it out for 32 years and no regrets.

I realize that I'm in the twilight of my career.

It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.

Stress is actually the number one thing that blocks people from their happiness and well-being and from getting what they want.

I think in life, people know what they want. They want to survive, they want to have a family. They want to procreate because it's in the genetic law.

One thing is a fairly simple and straightforward thing. I don't long to direct. I really want to get some good parts.

Give the people what they think they want.

I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.

Hee is rich enough that wants nothing.

Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse.

The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.

I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live.

I think the most important thing is that everybody is happy creating, and doing what they want to do, and have really great relationships with each other.

It's what everyone is after, I mean they want success and when they get it it's an incredible pressure but what you have to do is try to keep the big picture in view.

We're living in a time where we want to be entertained but I think part of what people are looking for, that they don't even know they're looking for is to be uplifted in many ways.

When I'm watching TV, I'm always drawn to those female characters who are doing something that I would want to do.

Where there is no waste, there is no want.