Quotes About Fulfillment

After a West End run, in which I was promoted to Laertes, I joined the RSC in 1972. I had fulfilled my dream.

I certainly never pictured myself even attending the Academy Awards, much less winning at 56. I very, very happily settled into a theater career. I did more than that, but I let all of my agents and people go. I said, 'I don't want to be promoted in film anymore. I have enough to do in the theater, so I'm just going to carry on.'

Money is always a motivating factor, but money has never been my driving force. In my first fight, I paid the promoter in order for me to fight. I was in the hole 300 bucks for that. Money has always been a byproduct of me doing something I love.

I enjoy writing and promoting my books. I enjoy the feedback. But all this is because I don't depend on it commercially. I don't need that money. I have a career.

Stop hoping for a promotion that's not coming. Instead, start a business at which you want to work.

I've never been someone who's very prone to boredom. I don't know, boredom seems like something you should grow out of at about 15 or 16. There's so much that needs to be done.

If anyone has a dream out there, just know that I'm living proof that they do come true.

If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.

The more I'm dedicated to this work, the more I'm able to satisfy my deep need to create. And that's a pretty good thing. If you take half-decent care of yourself, that can propel you on into productive later years.

Confidence is a crucial building block in a successful career, and embracing it fully will take you places you never thought possible. With proper guidance and hard work, anyone can become more confident. Once you pass a certain point, you'll feel it from the inside.

I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.

To finally be able to actually play the piano with vocalists and actually do, like, a proper concert - that feels really good.

I'm content with what I've got from the industry, even though sometimes it seems like I might not get the proper credit.

Comedy is my proper job. It's what I should be doing, and when I do other bits like my science series, I miss it.

For me, if something fits properly, it makes me feel good.

I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it.

Once you take a role, you have to do it properly and do it justice.

If I'd done 'Top Gear,' I would have had to have left my job, and I've got the best job in the world. To do 'Top Gear' and do it properly would mean leaving work, and I can't. I don't want to leave work.

It's funny, we make all these sacrifices for our nation, but are we really getting looked after properly at the end of the day?

Even at my biggest, I want to be writing for other artists. Even at my peak - the highest I can be as an artist - I always want to be keeping my creative juices flowing, keeping money in the bank, putting my intellectual property out there.

I'm very happy right now without any property anywhere.

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy?

You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible.

Anytime you're sitting there writing a book about yourself, it's a pretty self-fulfilling prophecy, I guess.