Quotes About Purpose

I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!

For me, a bad day is when I have nothing going on.

While it's generally easier to stay the course, it's a bad idea if that course does not take us where we want to go.

An agenda is not a bad thing.

I get a lot of girls who say, 'I just want to be a model so badly.' And I think: 'You can do better than that.' I mean, look, I do love it, I'm not saying anything bad about it, I just think you can do a lot more.

It should not all be about badminton.

There comes a point where it doesn't matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.

I have declined projects made under big banners because I didn't have much to do in them.

My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

I have a high bar for myself already; I always want to do something beautiful and meaningful.

Bars can't be everything to everyone. They must be everything to someone.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

While I don't know if I exist in the land of the elite, I'm definitely on the battlefield with restlessness.

If I ask you, 'What do you want out of life?' and you say something like, 'I want to be happy and have a great family and a job I like,' it's so ubiquitous that it doesn't even mean anything. Everyone wants that.

My ambition is to be happy.

The way I see it is if I can't be happy doing this job, which is my dream job, then what's going to make me happy in life?

A lot of actors think they can't be happy without the acting... But I think I couldn't be happy with it anymore.

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

What the purpose of my life is about is I want to become the kind of person that God wants me to become, and through my study of the scriptures I can articulate the kind of person that God would be happy if I become.

I always say to my students, 'If you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.'

If you're not gonna be happy, then it's not worth doing anything.

I don't care about anything but what I want to do. You can't worry about what else is happening out there. You have to be true to yourself.

I sit at the beach and I keep thinking there is something more I could be doing.

I never choose jobs because of what I think I should do. I want to feel something. And with 'Beast,' it was very much like that.