Quotes About Purpose

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Dreams grow holy put in action.

If that had been my only purpose in life - to call home runs and touchdowns - I'd lead a pretty shallow life.

I was starting to do well at building homes and things like that. That interested me a lot as well. So I was debating whether to go do that full time or not.

I honestly don't want to act anymore.

In all honesty, I'm super happy to be where I am, doing what I'm doing and making a living doing what I love to do.

I'm not running from any particular problems, I just want to take some time and figure out in my life where I can keep doing what I'm doing but in a way that I can also honor what I want to do for myself.

I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.

I hope to live to 100. There is so much to do.

My work is myself. That's what makes me feel like I have purpose. It makes me happy and inspired and hopeful - as hard as it may be sometimes.

Everything happens for a reason, and hopefully it makes me a better person in the process.

I have to say, I feel a weird sort of calling in filmmaking that I didn't feel with other things. I feel like there are things in life you want to do, and then things you are called to do, and hopefully you can allow yourself to want to do whatever you're called to do.

I'm a hopeless father. I don't know why. I don't think I was supposed to be a father.

My assignment is to take my situation and to use it to help others who feel hopeless and/or helpless because of loss.

I don't really spend a lot of time discounting the things I'm doing in hopes that I could be doing something else.

I think that everybody needs to find meaning in life. I was hoping to do something that serves the needs of society.

I'm really hoping to find something that I feel as connected with as I did with 'The Florida Project.' I want to feel that passionate about things that I work on. I don't want to just act to act.

At 30 I was not quiet enough inside myself. At 40 I was not rich enough. At 50 I was still hoping to change the world.

My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.

The horror films that I've made have been satirical in one way or another or political, and I really think that's the purpose of horror. I don't see that happening very often.

I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.

Why retire from something if you're loving it so much and enjoying it so much, and you're blessed with another group of people to work with like the gang on 'Hot in Cleveland?' Why would I think of retiring? What would I do with myself?

Just an hour with you, and I understand why we had to meet.

What does a house want to be?