Quotes About Purpose

Your profession should give you enjoyment, but it should never be your life.

I don't think I was ever cut out for a 9 to 5 white collared profession.

Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful.

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.

If you didn't join for the girls, choose another profession.

You question, as anybody should, the overarching worth of your profession, right? So that's a question I've often asked myself.

We have the opportunity not just to choose our job or profession, but also to choose the sort of life we want to live and the imprint we will leave on others.

An actor has to remember the primary reason why he chose the profession that he did. If every role that I do doesn't challenge me, then what is the point of being an actor?

For me, this profession is about having a career where you can go on working for 60 years, so I'm not particularly bothered by things to do with fame; I like to think that I just do what I do.

People say, 'Well, you've been sent to different places.' To be sent to different places it means you're wanted in different places at the same time.

Do you want to be famous, or do you want to have actual money to take care of your family down the line? I'd say it's a case by case call there. Some guys fight for different reasons. What do you fight for? Do you fight for this reason or for that reason.

There are a million different things that I want to do.

It's always been a struggle to differentiate myself, but I like my parents. I enjoy doing events with them, and I don't feel I should purposely avoid something just for the sake of being different.

What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

I know my destiny is moksh or liberation. I will not die for money or success. I am satisfied living the life I am leading, and I will die with dignity.

This sounds really weird, but I feel like God has given me so many beauty dilemmas so I can help people.

I realize that I cannot live without a spiritual dimension in my life.

My life has a great degree of dimension without making movies.

If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

I want to direct. Definitely a goal of mine.

Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like.

Everyone wants to be loved; everyone wants to know where they're going in life; everyone wants to have a sense of direction and feel the next day is going to be better than today. We just all deal with it in a different way.

From the very beginning, I had an ambition for 'The Luminaries': a direction - but not a real idea.