Quotes About Calling

Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is.

When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.

I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do.

Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

I always tell my kids make your vocation your vacation.

In law, one's sense of calling or vocation will lead one to be interested in certain dimensions of Constitutional law.

I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my soul.

My vocation is I do what I do. I'm an actor; that's what I do.

I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

II'm quite a successful musician, but I'm not sure if it's my vocation.

The musicians in Chicago gave me my vocation, but New York calls to a jazz musician, for sure. You want to test your mettle.

When you have a sense of calling, whether it's to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or a plumber, there is something deep and enriching when you realize it isn't just a casual choice, it's a divine calling. It's not limited to vocational Christian service by any means.

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

As far back as I can remember, my mother would have me down by the bed at night with her, praying. I can still hear her voice calling my name to God and telling him that she wanted me to follow him in whatever he called me to do.

I think God must have had something in mind for me that was not on my radar when I first started out in New York. Back then, doing animated voices meant your career was done - it was looked down upon.

There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing.

Two years after drama school, I had a nervous breakdown: I heard voices, and the voice I heard in my head was Martin Luther King's.

I think there's a real calling out there for leadership and maybe the Bush family could fill the void. All of us have been bitten by the bug to do something some day in our lives to help others.

For lack of a better calling, I just figured my dad's a doctor. He seems to enjoy what he does, so I had my eye on playing volleyball in college, maybe a tiny bit after, but then going to medical school and becoming a doctor.

The Lord, over the years, grew a seed in my heart to make faith-based films.

My agent called me when we were talking before I came to the States. He told me we are going to select only three or four teams who are most interested, who are calling the most, asking for you, who are watching me the most in Europe and scouting me.

I went into the seminary when I was 16.

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.