Quotes About Purpose

One of the things my dad told me when I was growing up was, 'Find your calling. Find what you're meant to do.' When I found animation, I knew this was it.

I think I needed rather than wanted to be an actor. There is not another way to put it.

I love being a judge, and I anticipate being a judge for the rest of my life.

Work is like a drug. I'm jonesing for more. It's gotten more addictive than I had realized. I get anxious when I have nothing to do now.

I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.

I've worked every day since I was 10. I don't know how to do anything else. There is nothing else I'd rather be doing.

I couldn't think of anything else I'd rather be doing.

Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?

Anywhere I'm wanted, I'll go. I've got to be wanted, though.

I'm open to working anywhere, but not on anything.

It feels like as you get a bit older, you've worked out the things that are good for your life apart from with acting.

I wanted to play the Apollo because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long.

Doing something because it's quote-unquote a good career move doesn't really appeal to me.

The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.

It's important to me to create archetypes of human experiences and make them so that the song has a sense of purpose when you experience those emotions. You know, just making people feel like they're not alone.

God is building an army all over the place, in Hollywood as well. So it feels good to be a part of it.

It's best to know a little about where you're coming from and why you've arrived where you are.

Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.

I didn't want to be an artist.

Prince had always told us he just wanted to get through this thing called life. But now that his own physical life has ended, his artistic life will continue.

I feel that I am more aware of my artistry.

Once a thing is nothing more than what it is, it's too useful to serve the cause of luxury.

El genio no dependía más que de sí mismo, era el único juez de los medios de que se valía, porque solo él conocía el fin que se proponía: debía, por tanto, situarse por encima de las leyes, porque estaba llamado a rehacerlas; por otra parte, quien señorea su siglo puede tomarlo todo, arriesgarlo todo, ya que todo le pertenece.

Some persons may, perhaps, think that this declaration is somewhat autocratic and self-assertive. They will quarrel with the novelist for wanting to be an historian, and will call him to account for writing politics. I am simply fulfilling an obligation — that is my reply. The work I have undertaken will be as long as a history; I was compelled to explain the logic of it, hitherto unrevealed, and its principles and moral purpose.