Anthony Burgess Quotes

I only do what I like to do.

I will act because I enjoy it.

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

I wouldn't do anything I don't enjoy.

The pleasure is our choice.

I'm doing exactly what I want to do, and I'm having fun doing it.

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

I want to do it because I want to do it.

I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

I try not to do anything I don't like, so I stay motivated pretty easily.

I’m doing this because I like it.

If it looks like fun, and it looks like quality, then I'll do it. I don't feel compelled to work - or not to work.

If something makes someone happy, then that's what they should do.

I always try and decide what I'm interested in, and I just do that.

We do what we like, and we like what we do.

Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way.

I didn't start running because somebody asked me to become a runner. Just like I didn't become a novelist because someone asked me to. One day, out of the blue, I wanted to write a novel. And one day, out of the blue, I started to run-simply because I wanted to. I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

When I went to school, I was in the same mode. I did the things I enjoyed, what I loved.

But on the other side I am very glad that I can at least enjoy some freedom.

The will of man is his happiness.

Hey, if something is making you feel good, and it's not hurting anyone else, does it really matter if others believe?

You've gotta do what you like to do. If you do things you don't like to do, what sense does it make?

I've always said in my career and in my life I only do things I'm interested in.

I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.