Quotes About Calling

I think there's an opportunity hopefully for religion to be not so much used as a cudgel but invoked as a way of calling us to higher values.

When City came calling, I researched the club, but when I first came through the door, it was weird: it was a big club but at the same time a small club.

My calling was to be a mom.

With theatre, I found that one thing that I am good at and it gave me so much confidence. I feel like I have found my calling and that's how films happened to me as well.

You have a song, and people know it. It's like a calling card for you.

When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either see it as an albatross or a calling card.

I feel like there are some careers that do have a higher meaning.

Every day carries with it a responsibility.

I'm being called in by all the great casting directors. It's no longer based on a headshot. I realize now what they're buying is passion.

When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.

I'm a strong believer in destiny. I believe you are born to do certain things.

I asked my agents, 'Can you just keep calling them and get me a seat in the room to chat to them about it?' And Marvel met me.

It was so bizarre. I've never accepted a job as quickly as I accepted the Chelsea one. I said yes, I'll do it, I didn't even ask about the money. I just thought: this is my calling.

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

Sometimes you don't choose the material; the material chooses you.

For most actors, it is the script that chooses them and not the other way around.

I've always believed that it's the film that chooses the actor and not the other way round.

I'm a God-fearing man, and I know the only reason why I am here going from poverty to where I am now is God has His hand on my life. I tell people, 'I didn't choose acting; God chose me to act.'

God gave me an ability to throw a baseball. He chose me for a reason, and I want to honor Him with that.

Comedy chose me.

I believe I was born for this, to tell people about the Lord. I just wanted to find the best way that I could do it, and music, God graced me to be able to do it, and that was the way that I chose to be effective and tell people that the Lord loves them.

I didn't choose BYU, I like to think it chose me.

I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

Acting kind of chose me.