Paul Rust Quotes

I've always wanted to create. I didn't ever want to just be a football player, so I'm just bringing all these childhood dreams together to try to accomplish the things I want to do before I die.

To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.

If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.

Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.

I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.

When I was a kid, I figured I would be a physicist when I grew up, and then I would write science fiction on the side. The physicist thing didn't pan out, but writing science fiction on the side did.

I gave up the idea of having a career when I was 24. Sounds glamorous, but I've been doing things since then, and part of those adventures was to make films because I realised I was actually quite good at it and I enjoyed it.

Thankfully, dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses.

If I have any basic motivation, it's to inspire people to make their life a masterpiece.

I feel like I could devote myself to far more important things than writing novels.

I'm going to do anything in my power to keep creating the path that I want to go down and I want to be a part of and be involved with, and whether or not that means superstardom or making music for the rest of my life and not having to work at a coffee shop, I'm fine. I'm happy. I'm stoked for whatever opportunity arises.

It was one of those early mid-life crises, really. I started asking myself, 'What is it that I want from my life?' This question kept haunting me: 'Do I want to be a lawyer who always wanted to be a writer, or do I actually want to be a writer?

I knew if I were ever to leave 'Godspell,' which I loved so much, it would have to be for something really spectacular.

When I was at school I wanted to be a writer and an actress. Then this whole modelling thing happened.

I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

I did not consider that I would lead a literary life. I'd thought initially, as a young girl, that I would be a teacher, since I so admired many of my teachers. And though I loved writing, I did not ever think of myself as a writer.

Pursue whatever it is that you want to do with your life. It is the only secret to happiness that I know except for maybe true love, that and maybe having the amazing health insurance plan that our congressmen have.

You have two choices in life. You either die or do something with your time. You're going to be doing something - why not write?

Don't dream your life, but live your dream

In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album.

All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.

Whatever your walk in life is, you pick what you want to be, then go ahead and be the best one.