Quotes About Purpose

Historically, there is a presumption that the legitimate police powers of the states are not to be pre-empted by federal law unless Congress has made that purpose clear.

I'm so damn lucky to make a living acting, but it's not that I love it, not all the time. If I couldn't act, I wouldn't die. I'm much more interested in the human aspect of life than the pretend.

I'd rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than faking it and pretending like I'm this face of women's basketball, when I can't stand the sport at all.

Oh, I must be ambitious, mustn't I? I'm sure I always have been. I think you can only get away with pretending you're not for so long. After that, it becomes ridiculous.

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.

Early on, I said to myself that I would like to write a kind of moral and spiritual history of a place. It sounds a little pretentious, I know. But that's really what I set for myself.

It's important to me that I'm more than a pretty face or another person starring in movies. That's great, but there's so much more than can and should be done.

I've said it before: just being a pretty face ain't going to get you that far. It has to be about whatever the art behind it is and what the message is and what the music is, the purpose.

And I don't know where I'm heading. I mean, I've got a pretty good idea of what I want in life.

No, I do not want to be an actor. I am happy being a dancer.

Everyone is born, and has a death date. The days in between are meant to live, which is why I am not afraid of anyone.

I'm a mom. I live for my daughters.

Dave Filoni is a bit of a magician. Nothing is by accident.

I consider acting a day job - it's not my dream; it's not my be-all, end-all.

No one can be said to be happy until he is dead.

Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

Be true to yourself, pick something that really matters to them and is dear to them.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

There's no amount of money that would make me decide something for a career.

In my mind, I never doubted whether I was going to achieve what I wanted to do. I just had to decide what it is I wanted to do.

I was a mathematician by nature, and still am - I just knew I didn't want to be a mathematician. So I decided not to take any mathematics courses.