Giovanni Ribisi Quotes

When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.

You dream what you're supposed to do.

You are defined by who you are, by your choices in life, in all regards, not just in doing movies.

I had no idea what I wanted to be when I was 17. I just knew I wanted to be something larger than myself.

It's my life, it's up to me what I want to do with it. And I'm realizing that.

There are enough roles for everyone, and I truly believe that the roles that we end up doing are the exact ones that are right for us at that time as people and as actors.

You choose who you want to be.

Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

The most important thing in my life is to live my life and enjoy it - to do what I think is right and what I think is good.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

I don't want the iPod to be my defining thing.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

I'm a person who has life and wants to live, and always have.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.