Quotes About Fulfillment

I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.

Some of the best times I've ever had in my life have been because of acting and through acting. But I'm not interested in the game of acting and being an actor and auditioning and all that stuff.

It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.

I'm not interested in anything besides making some good music, helping some artists, being an executive. I'm pretty happy with that.

I'm not interested in the what-do-you-do-for-a-living questions.

That's the worst and best thing about being in the studio, feeling completely lost and not knowing how to put the final touch on something. But once you find it, there's nothing like that feeling.

I want to win something with Lazio, and I am not talking about just winning games.

I want to be there for the last note of 'Freebird' when that happens.

I want to finish my career on a high note.

I don't want to be resentful to the sport. I want to be able to leave the sport on a high note.

You always want to end the year on a high note.

I just knew that I was funny, and I knew that it was just a matter of time. I didn't know what was going to actually happen - this is definitely way bigger than I thought - but I knew there was no way I was going to be that funny, and nobody was going to notice it.

Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.

When I was, like, 18, that's when I started to really take my own craft seriously and just noticed people were enjoying it. And when I put out my first mixtape, that's when I realized I could make this a career.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

Ha, well you see... this notion of a balanced life, I don't think I'm ever going to be able to have that... but I can have what I call an integrated life.

It was important for me as a theater artist to allow myself and my interests to evolve over time and allow my notion of what success meant to evolve over time. I've always had a day job and never been just acting. But it didn't make me feel like I wasn't doing what I was supposed to be doing.

When I learned a little bit about du Pont and a little bit about Mark Schultz, I was attracted to the notion that these incredibly different people found each other and seemed, for a moment, to be the answer that each was looking for.

The notion of getting pleasure from food has gone too far; we can also get pleasure from anticipating a meal, and from not being quite sated.

I've never had much notoriety. It's fine with me.

It wasn't until I was 35 or 36, when I wrote 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' that I began to get some notoriety, though I only made $5,000.

Some jobs you do because they pay the bills. Other jobs nourish the soul.

Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.

I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey.