Mike Figgis Quotes

I loved the travel but I didn't love the work. I mean, come on, modelling is only so stimulating!

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

After 'Secretary,' I was wanting very badly to find something to make that I really cared about.

A lot of actors think they can't be happy without the acting... But I think I couldn't be happy with it anymore.

I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.

I've had fun doing romantic comedies, but I just can't anymore. There's nothing fulfilling creatively, there's nowhere to grow, nothing to learn from it or for yourself. I'd rather just be home with my family or write music until that special project comes my way.

I look at composers and conductors, anybody involved in music or writing or art in general; they got more done as they got older. If I can, I'll be one of those people because what I do is my passion.

My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.

The only reason why you should do a film is because it creatively carbonates you and gets you going. If you're doing it for any other reason, you've lost sight of why you're acting in the first place.

I'm voraciously looking to express myself in my work. I love my work.

I don't want to just be fully rapping my whole life.

Being an actress isn't as fun as it may seem. If I don't love something, I stop doing it. I don't love acting anymore, so I've stopped doing it.

After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.

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.

Find your passion is in life, and do what you can to integrate that into your work life. That's not to say you won't have occasional frustrations in your job - that just goes with the territory - but at least you'll feel better inside, and that, over time, will mean more to you than you might think.

The best career advice to give to the young is, 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

I relate really well to individuals who have a career and explore other adventures outside of skating. That, to me, is fascinating.

Work has never really been work for me. It's been a natural extension of my life.

Nick Kyrgios, if you don't want to be a professional tennis player, do something else.

I recognized that the passion I have and feel for interior and design and furniture was not organically there for styling. The fuel that drives you when doing something you truly love... wasn't there.

Knowing at the end of the day you get to go home and you can work on your own project is super rewarding as an actor.

When you have a job you know you'd do for free, it takes a lot of the pressure away to be successful at it. So if it's doing theater in New York or teaching acting, I'm down for all of it.

Baseball is my job, and I love it, but it can't be the only thing I've got going on.

I started writing because I wasn't getting things as an actor.