Quotes About Purpose

I'm hungry as an artist to find opportunities to contribute to the world in a more meaningful way than just numbing people through entertainment.

People are starved for a way of life - they're hunting for a way to be or to act toward the world.

I tell myself to hurry up, that I have to do everything before death catches me.

I was never in a hurry to make my first album. I knew I wouldn't do it until I knew exactly what I wanted it to be.

And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so what? We do it because we are born to do it, we feel we have no other choice and so be it.

How hard could it be? Is it really going to hurt? You get into that deep well of emotion if you are by yourself. Why am I here? What's the point of going on? If I can't do what I want to do, then what's the point?

It would take me three or four lifetimes to do everything I want. I'm a Brooklyn boy who learned to hustle, and I have to do something every day or I get the guilties.

'Biutiful' is not about death. It's about life. It's a hymn to life.

Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don't you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac.

I've always found inspiration in icons that were really of purpose in their craft or calling. From Bob Marley to Maya Angelou to Malcolm X, inspiration came from seeing how committed they were to their vision and determining it themselves.

We know the ideal isn't where the action is.

Anything I do must have a line of idealism.

Ideally, we date the folks who are dating for the same reason we are.

I've felt this real need to ground my work in my ideals.

It's not a matter of learning lines. It's a matter of getting into the ideas and the will of the person. It's a matter of, 'What does he want to do? What does he want to achieve?'

I do not think that my life starts and ends with films. I do not use my profession as my identification.

I've always identified as an actor. That's what I set out to do.

When you find yourself in a certain situation you have to identify where you want to go and focus on what you can achieve on that given day.

A belt doesn't identify me.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

'I Am Number Four' is a great story about a guy who's trying to find his destiny and figure out who he is and his identity.

You manifest based on who you are already - so you must own the identity of the dream in order to manifest it.

There's a point where you think, 'What else will I do if I don't do music?' It becomes your identity when it never should have been. But food ignited a fire in me, and I came right back to music because it no longer felt like a job. It was a really powerful thing for me.

God can desire to enter into a relationship with us; he can be drawn to some aspect of our identity.