Quotes About Fulfillment

A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it's an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation - where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that's the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.

I'm not of the mind where, 'It doesn't matter what you care about; you've got to have a safe reliable job and do the 9 to 5.' I obviously don't subscribe to that. There's nothing wrong with that, though, if that's what you want to do.

When you're working and making money, that's all good, but there has to be something that provides a substance, I think.

I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.

'Gilmore Girls' and the first 'Guardians' were the two most substantial jobs of my career.

Talking about myself, I get only two to three projects a year but let me tell you they are substantial projects.

I have been wanting to do a substantial role for quite sometime.

If something substantial comes my way - a very meaty and major role - which I would love to do, then of course one can make time for that.

If something nice comes my way, I will take it up. It has to be something substantial. I am not saying that I have to do films like 'The Dirty Picture' or 'Kahaani.' It could be something commercial as well.

Landing substantial and author-backed roles is indeed very gratifying.

I don't know if what kids really want is a hamster. What they want is a dog. So the hamster ends up being a substitute: 'Well, would you accept this?'

Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction.

All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.

There's no substitute for the experience of childbearing or child rearing.

When I'm retired, I want to be able to tell my kids I played in a European Cup final. I don't want to have to say I watched one from the substitutes' bench, then kept getting knocked out in the quarters and semis.

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

If you want a good life, don't succeed at anything too early or too well. And don't choose a profession that attracts money or attention. The minute people want to see you doing what you do, you're finished.

I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

You succeed and accomplish and accomplish; the problem is when you stop, you become depressed because you could never do enough.

The journey toward your Big Dream changes you. In fact, the journey itself is what prepares you to succeed at what you were born to do.

Never say that your life is to be a singer. You want to sing because it's a part of your life. But if you don't succeed as a singer, it doesn't mean you don't have a life and it's over.

My parents have - my dad has managed to succeed at his craft. So, you know, it's not like I was struggling in my life.

I look up to people who succeed in accomplishing their dreams.