Quotes About Fulfillment

I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing.

While writing, I'm always so happy in the middle of a book or finishing a book and really hate starting them, so I often think, 'I wish I had a really big book to write to which I could devote seven years of my life.'

I always like to get that finishing blow and satisfy the crowd.

I think finite series gives you more time to write down your journey in any show. When it's a finite series, you know the start and know your end. The writers and actors know what is going to happen, so the interest is not lost.

I've never felt like my career has been on fire.

I feel happy when I work. I don't care if tomorrow I will be fired.

I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.

I can't imagine doing anything cooler or better than what we did on 'The Stage' and felt like we're firing on all cylinders.

I always worry what I would have done if I hadn't found comedy. I think what would I have ended up doing? I've worked in a construction firm, fashion company just all things where I wasn't very good at my job.

I am still seeking to become firmly established as an actor.

I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.

I knew from very early on that I wanted kids. I wasn't one of those women who goes, 'Well, if it happens, it happens.' I really wanted a family. Although I didn't actually have my first child until I was 37, I always felt I'd get there.

I have put absolutely everything into my album. I feel like it's been such a long journey to get here. It is like giving birth to my first child, and I want to make sure I did everything right.

After I got my first job in a restaurant, it just clicked. I was like, this is it, this is what I want to do.

Acting is certainly my first love, but writing and directing has been on the 'to do' list for a long time.

I create music for myself first of all because if I'm not happy with the music I create, I can't make anybody else happy.

I feel really blessed to first of all have the opportunity to do music, and second of all to have it be going well.

I am the first one to believe that if a player is happy in what he is doing he performs much more.

Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not about money in the first place. It's about the job.

There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.

The only reason I came to L.A. in the first place was to tell stories and make movies. Whatever way you can do that - if you can do that - at whatever level, that's rewarding.

'Tyrannosaur's an arrival for me, but it's also the first step into a new career. I don't want to be moonlighting at this, like I have done with acting. Y'know, I think I've found my career at 37 years old.

I enjoy writing. Would I rather be playing golf? No. Would I rather be fishing? No.

I'm enjoying myself this year and for once I'm not chasing my fitness.