Quotes About Purpose

I don't want to live beyond the age of 75. That would be a good point to bow out. I don't want to go on for ever.

I never had a dream to be a boxer.

This is not just a job. Boxing is my whole life.

Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.

It was like boxing found me.

You exist only in what you do.

I say I want a break, but every time I have some down time, I don't know what to do with myself. I need to be doing something.

One of my great breaks is I have only done work I wanted to do.

The worse thing in the world is for an individual to live, breath and exist and leave this earth, die, and not make impact.

I really don't believe in retiring as long as you can breathe.

I live, breathe, and die by what kind of company we're creating.

I know these are my mandatory overs, but I would like to do films for as long as I breathe.

I love the kind of work I am bringing to the table.

The Lord has a way of working in our lives, and sometimes he brings us down low to bring new values back to our life.

Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

Some people get a Broadway show, and that's their end game, and they want to sit there for as long as possible. And some people have other things they want to do with their life.

I don't really consider myself a black man in Hollywood. I live in Brooklyn... and on purpose.

Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose.

I'm not going to take something based on budget and do something just for the sake of it. I want to make good films.

I've always said from starting off, 'I don't mind if I'm in a big budget film or a huge play or something small in London playing for 50 people, as long as I'm doing what I love doing for a living.'

I was going to Hartford High School and when the theater bug hit, it hit hard and it saved my life. It gave me focus, direction and purpose.

I've got nothing against selling out, but just let me do it for something that matters. Not so I can be Number One With a Bullet, as it were, but so I can leave this world feeling like I made a difference.

There have been bumps, but everything has happened for a reason - maybe apart from the loss of some loved ones - and we have always tried to find a positive from it.

The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess.