Quotes About Fulfillment

reason for giving up an itinerant life

The more of them you have, the more you heighten your daily joy and entertainment, the more heartache you know you're going to get sooner or later, the more important it seems to make every second count.

I was never once told to consider anything but my dreams. It's probably one of the greatest gifts my parents gave me, because it never occurred to me to do something other than what I loved.

I've gotten used to being Frank Ocean.

It didn't matter if we didn't have new bikes and skateboards and a nice car, and a lot of food in the fridge. We were in the ocean just enjoying life to the fullest.

Read everything. Write all the time. And if you can do anything else that gives you equal pleasure and allows you to sleep soundly at night, do that instead. The writing life is an odd one, to say the least.

I think youve got to work out what makes you happy. With me, its that I do lots of different things. So Ive got this rather odd career whereby Im not really a stand-up and Im not really an actor and Im not really a writer. But I do them all.

It feels great, definitely feels great to have your number called and be a part of the offense.

Just because a woman is over 50 does not mean she no longer has anything to offer. If anything, we have so much more to offer! We have lived life, we get better with age. I do my best work now in my 60s. Sure, I could retire; but what would I do? Play Bingo? I think not!

Anyone who says they don't enjoy the Army is mad - you can spend a week hating it and the next week it could be the best thing in the world and the best job you could ever, ever wish for. It has got so much to offer.

I did something a lot of people will have to do in this economy if they want to eventually land their dream job. I turned down an offer to take a high-paying position in another field because it wouldn't fulfill me.

Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.

The world has a great deal more to offer than money.

I will encourage my kids in everything that life has to offer.

Some people become artists for whatever reasons. Some of it's frivolous. And I don't think there should be any shame on that, but I think there comes a point in life where you want to offer more.

I've been offered a couple of shows that have been very successful, but they weren't right for me. It has to be something I could be excited about for a long time.

If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun.

The 'boy next door' parts I get offered, I don't find interesting.

I'm bored. I'm bored with the kind of parts I get offered. I can do more.

Each of us, every day, through the jobs we do, are offered a shot at greatness, an opportunity to reach immortality.

I no longer take on everything offered. Instead, I go up for roles I like, things that I would enjoy watching, stories that I want to tell.

I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.

As an actress, I am happy that people are offering me good roles and I am earning success critically and commercially.

For me, if awards are not increasing my remuneration or adding value to the offers that I get, they have no meaning.