Christine McVie Quotes

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

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

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

I had moved back to Kenya after undergrad, and I went through this crisis of, 'What is my life going to be about?'

People go to college to find who they are as a person and find what they want to do in life, and I kind of already know that so it would be like I'd be taking a step back or something.

In 2013, I didn't work at all, just contemplating what I needed to do, whether I was walking in my destiny or not.

I had no idea when I graduated from high school and then from graduate school what I wanted to do with my life. I had no idea that I was ever going to be an actor.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

I think that most people will spend their whole life not figuring out what they're meant to do, or figuring out what they're meant to do on their way to do something else. So I just feel lucky that I know what I love to do. Everything else figures itself out.

I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.

I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.

I was in college that first semester, and I was like, 'Wow, this isn't who I am. This isn't what I want to do.' I was like, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to go out and make something of myself, and I have no clue what that is.'

I was a bit of a lost lamb in my twenties, trying to find my higher calling.

It wasn't until I could get out of Stanford that I could sit down and think about my life, to do the things that most kids do, which is to ask who am I, what do I want to be when I grow up. I never got to do Dan Pintauro.

We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.

I was a confused young man. I didn't know what I wanted to be.

I think it's okay not knowing what you want to become.

I knew from a young age what I wanted to do, but that's not the case for everyone. Some go through different paths to reach their destination.

At 33 years old, I didn't have to work anymore. I had to search through 'What am I going to do for the rest of my life?' I wasn't ready to fly-fish for the rest of my life.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.