Marie Rutkoski Quotes

I don't care about my personal acting career anymore. I'm done with it. After 10 years of making movies and doing better than I ever could have imagined, I sort of had to ask myself: 'What am I supposed to do with all of this success that I have had?'

I remember, when I was younger, it was such a big fantasy for me. Now that I actually have a career and have made an album, it's really surreal.

If I can sit on national television, and people are listening to what I think, anyone can do anything.

I don't feel like I've achieved what I wanted to achieve yet, even though every day I get an email from another girl who tells me the difference that Girls Who Code has made in her life. I'm not done yet.

Inspiration is one of my favorite things. That's all I want to do - I want to inspire people.

If you can't see an example of what you could be, you really aren't going to have that extra incentive to break through any types of barriers.

I'm a big believer in living out your dreams and facing your fears.

Growing up, everyone dreams of certain things, and they map out a direction that their life would take. Working with A. R. Rahman sir is one of my dreams, if not the biggest dream, realised.

I can cry myself to sleep because I'm not as great as Leonard Cohen, but who cares? Maybe you can't be as great as some people, but it's a tragedy when you don't follow your dreams.

So many people doubted me. They motivated me every single day, to be, who I am.

If my life can inspire people, then a television show where guests talk about their challenges and what makes them unique would work.

I don't think there'd be a Tina Fey now if I hadn't tried to look good in the beginning.

I always wanted to be good at something, to be somebody. The minute I got into my first play, which was called ''Excuse My Dust' - I was 17 at the time - I knew that this was what I'd been looking for.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

Writing itself is a dream. There are days of self doubt and deadlines and wondering how you're going to pay the bills until you write that bestseller. But it's still the best job I've ever had. I've also been able to help a lot of people and even inspire a few and that feels great.

Songwriting is like going to church. I'm connecting to something, and it's rewarding in really important ways. I don't need to share it with anyone to feel good about it.

I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.

I say, 'If I'm able to go out there and achieve a dream, then anybody can do it.'

And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true.

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!

I grew up believing that my parents helped change the world. I was so in awe of them, and I wondered how I could measure up. I mean, how do you change the world - again?

I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States.

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

There's just a lot of stuff that really moves me, and I don't know how to express it, and I just want to try to do the best I can and surround myself with good people who don't invalidate me.

Drawing was the only thing I was any good at in school, but I never dreamt I would, or even could, spend my life doing it.