Quotes About Purpose

We have more to offer than just looking good.

Not everyone is going to like what you do or what you have to offer; however, if you can't see yourself doing anything else, and you have the drive and ambition, get the training and go for it.

I want to offer a word of encouragement to authors: You have to feel called to the message of your book enough that you want people to get that message. When you get to that place, your passion goes through the roof, and then the other stuff happens.

I think a lot of people are getting more serious about how to do the most good, but there is no road map. I'm hoping I can offer an example.

Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.

I think I've got a bit more to offer than just dancing. It might just be me that thinks that, but it's worth saying.

Some people become artists for whatever reasons. Some of it's frivolous. And I don't think there should be any shame on that, but I think there comes a point in life where you want to offer more.

I no longer take on everything offered. Instead, I go up for roles I like, things that I would enjoy watching, stories that I want to tell.

I just realized I wanted to do more than ballet. I was offered an apprenticeship, so I was about to join a company and drop out of high school, and then it hit me: I didn't want that anymore.

While I am open to good offers when they come by, I have found my calling in theatre.

I don't really make movies because I want to see my face on a billboard or because I want to get good reviews or have a big box office. That doesn't really matter to me at all.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

You don't leave behind box office scores or how many dollars changed hands.

I didn't want to go to college or work in an office or have a nine-to-five job. I knew that quite clearly before I left school.

Oftentimes, even myself as I've come through my entire career from high school all the way up here, everything has been football, football, football. And then you realize that life is much bigger than this game, especially when you start thinking about life after football and what you want to leave behind.

I won't sign a film thinking, 'Oh my God! I don't have a film so I've got to sign one real quickly.'

I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'

The second thing we did was said, OK, we've now identified the risk, but what do you want to do with the money? Because it's not enough to have risk; you've got to have a meaningful use for the money we give you.

When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.

Sometimes it's okay for careers to find you.

If you can figure out where you fit into any particular story, you'll be okay. When you're not quite sure where you fit in, you try to be too many parts of the story. You gild the lily. I see it all the time.

Sometimes people here can get so focused on, Oh, I've got to get a flight, that it becomes the end all of everything. Then they go off and fly a couple of flights and they think, Okay, is that all there is in life? No, it's not. There's a whole big life out there.

A lot of people come to L.A. looking for something. What I came here for, I realize now, is to be okay with myself.

You may not be like everyone else, but that's okay. Be who God made you to be.