Quotes About Purpose

The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.

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

I remember telling the Lord - I was about seventeen or eighteen - I'm like, 'Lord, I'm never gonna sing. You know that's my family's thing; that not what I do.'

I was kind of lost for several years.

Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.

I feel like I'm not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?

Dream and you shall become.

If you can sort out why you feel the way you do then you might be in better shape to meet your maker.

No matter how lofty a film is, it becomes a product after entering the market. It has a price. I think no matter what your purpose of shooting it, it has to have artistic value and then sell. But you can't make money if it doesn't have artistic value.

I'd like to be known as something more than a girl who goes to lunch with her girl friends and goes shopping.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

There are players who tend not to look at the money short-term: they have a bigger plan.

On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

There is more to life than show business.

You don't write a book to show off.

I feel like God is just telling me what I need to do, and He's showing me the light.

Because I'm not doing it for the money, I'm doing it because I feel like that story needs to be told or clarified, or something needs to be shown about that.

Don't run after shows and money.

I don't think about awards when I set out to do something. If that happens, it's great.

You don't want to make awards the reason you're doing things.

I don't do movies for the awards. The awards are made for the films. The films are not made for the awards.

Fame and success and awards should never be the aim. The aim should be: Are you enjoying the making of the thing?

I only have an awareness of what I'm trying to achieve as an actor and what my job as the character is to service.

There've been times I felt like, 'I don't know if I want to do this.' That maybe I should go back to school and become a special-education teacher. But I love entertaining.