Pink Quotes

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.

I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me.

I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

I advise women to live their life to their fullest, invest in who you want to be and live it well.

I don't make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they're right for me, and they're interesting and challenging.

The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.

Your life is meant for you to understand and process, not to make anyone else happy.

It's good for people to look at me and think, 'This guy is doing his thing and enjoying what he's doing and successful at it and living his life.' And that's what I'm doing, and I'm very happy.

Asked to give advice to a 13-year-old girl about how to lead her life, I say find something you love to do. The goal shouldn't be accumulating money. It might be making changes in the world, or in your country.

The thing is, I don't do these things for recognition, being a good teammate, being a positive member of the community. I do them because those things make me whole and complete.

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.

I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours.

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

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

I do things that I actually love and understand.

I am happy with the roles I play.

I have never done films to prove a point to anyone; I have done them for myself.