Quotes About Choices

I don't believe in luck. I don't believe in destiny. Instead, I believe that our lives are powered by countless microdecisions.

It is what we do with our lives that counts.

What I implore you to do is believe that if you make courageous choices and bet on yourself and put yourself out there that you will have an impact as a result of what you do, and you don't need to know now what that will be, or how that will happen, because nobody ever does.

It is difficult to constantly make courageous choices.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you.

I hate getting a McDonald's. I'm not a McDonald's person: you just feel crap afterwards.

I think everyone does crazy things in life.

I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do. I never wanted to look at character I've done and cringe.

I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I'm not going to read all the books before I die.

I'm not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It's really not my place.

I've been criticized for the things I chose and things I've chosen to do.

Running with the wrong crowd will never help you.

I really didn't put myself around the wrong crowds.

When you're in your mid-thirties, the cult of people who have children around you all want you in their cult, and they constantly ask you, 'So when are you going to have a baby?'

Also, it was a cultural moment that wasn't being represented in terms of women who were successful and had choices they didn't have before. They needed a show that they can watch that they felt like represented them.

We're all trying to figure out on a daily basis what kind of person to be, aren't we? I am, at least.

My kids, since birth, have been dairy- and gluten-free.

'Pretty Little Liars' is very all-consuming of my time, but I guess it's a great problem to have... there have been other things that have come that were on the table and then were not.

Mike Schur knows exactly what everything should look like but, at the same time, is super collaborative and loves working with actors that make choices and bring stuff to the table.

What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.

I was raised in that generation where it was all 'Women can have it all!' and I don't think you can. I think something falls off the table. The good thing is that the things that stay on the table become so much more important.

Let's say you would see me in a lot more big movies had I done movies that I'd been asked to do playing bad guys. Now that I have a child on the way, I think that you'll probably be seeing me play more bad guys. If that's what's going to put bread on the table, that's what I'm going to be doing.

I try not to and I don't think I ever have just jumped at any opportunity because a company wanted me. Just because there was money on the table doesn't mean that I took it.

When I saw 'Legally Blonde' on Broadway, I rang my agent and said 'I want to be seen for this,' but the rest weren't big choices, really. 'Hedda Gabler' was a phone call offering it to me, and as I've said before quite embarrassingly, I didn't know the play, so I didn't sit there thinking 'I would now like to tackle Ibsen.'