Aldous Harding Quotes

Modeling was not an endgame for me. I didn't particularly enjoy the act of it.

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

I read a quote by James Dean when I was 17; he said, 'I'd rather starve than do a whole bunch of work that I don't care about.' The older I got, the more I understood what he was saying. If I want to do a whole lot of work that I don't care about, then I would probably be working in a law office somewhere.

I feel really lucky that I'm able to pursue the work that I love. I want my children to see that. I want them to have that for themselves, something that they love, that they do, that they pursue in their lives as a way of growing and learning.

I'm not as interested in what you make as I am in what you're passionate about. What business are you really in?

Asked to give advice to a 13-year-old girl about how to lead her life, I say find something you love to do. The goal shouldn't be accumulating money. It might be making changes in the world, or in your country.

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

I don't have a career. I have a life.

I don't want only a career.

To do what you wanna do, to leave a mark - in a way that you think is important and lasting - that's a life well-lived.

I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work.

Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.

I think 'work' is anything I'm doing with intention and purpose. There is absolutely no negative connotation to the word 'work' for me - I feel lucky that I get to wake up every day and spend my days doing things I believe in.

I feel one should do things which pleases them, and my progression into super model then to an actress and now to an entrepreneur is based on this.

The minute you decide to do what you love to do, you have made a life plan for yourself and a career choice.

I don't want to take up a project for the sake of it. I want to work and follow my passion, and not anything else.

Find something that you want to do when you're 60. Find your passion. Your passion, your work, whatever it is that you want to do. Find something that you would do, even if you didn't get paid. Whether it's an art or whether is something that you're passionate about.

The ultimate dream in life is to be able to do what you love and learn something from it.

I don't want to spend my life doing jobs that I don't care about.

After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

I hope that in 5 years from now I'll be working and doing what makes me happy. Whatever that may be.

For me, just being on the cover of a magazine wasn't enough. I began to think, what value is there in doing something in which you have no creative input?

While I'm here on this planet, I really want to create art and do creative things.

When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster. By the time I landed in the desert, I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to be a writer.

I've been fortunate that I can be selective enough to do acting when it's really furthering what I want to do with my life.