Quotes About Fulfillment

We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way.

You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public.

I don't miss the limelight, not at all. I'm just more comfortable out of it. I don't miss 'Monday Night Football.' I just don't miss it. I'm lucky. When I stopped playing, I didn't miss it. I feel blessed that it's not been a problem. I have great memories. I feel really lucky.

I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.

We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman.

We worked so hard we almost stopped enjoying it.

I've kind of stopped valuing laughter as the end-all measurement of what I'm doing.

If I'd stopped dreaming, I don't think I'd be here; I'd be somewhere else.

I didn't know how to socialize. I wasn't able to date. I felt like I was missing out on life. When I stopped diving, I started living.

And when I stopped doing that and started thinking about what feels natural and what feels right to me and started pleasing myself, then it became good.

There was a point where I was making four movies a year. I was always on a set. I had no stories to tell. I was feeling empty. My life was just luggage and hotels and from set to set, from character to character. And one day, I said, 'And where is mine?' You know? And the moment I started to feel that fear, I stopped and I slowed down.

When you really think about it, it doesn't really matter where a game ends. Ultimately, if the player is satisfied with stopping at a particular point, it doesn't matter if it's where the creator intended things to end or not... and so that's where the idea of having so many endings came about.

I'm not stopping. My dream has come true, and I'm staying.

I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

When it stops being fun, stop.

Going out and being nice to the world at large doesn't make me feel good, so I replace that with things, with technology that does get me excited and does get my brain spinning, until one day it stops spinning, and then you can bury me.

I believe that nothing stops a bullet like opportunity.

When I am on a long run in a play, I'm not sure how I would fill the days if I did not paint or write. On a basic level, it just stops me going crazy.

Sometimes when you are a great mom, you're not so great at your job. And then when you're good at your job, you're not so great of a mom or a good wife. It's a dance that never stops. But it's beautiful.

When you have fun doing something, it stops being work, really.

As soon as it stops being fun, then I'll stop acting.

For me, the driving force is the audience, and the day that stops, I will stop doing films. The day a part of me stops feeling like putting a smile on someone else's face or if I feel like I don't want to entertain anymore, then I will pack up and leave.

Sure, I can afford a nice car and a nice place, but this is not what brings me happiness. Now you're on a high, and people know you and things like that, but how many people will remember your name once it all stops and the money isn't raining from the sky?

When our career is over, when we retire and the basketball stops bouncing, we still have to find something else to do.