Eric Weddle Quotes

Suddenly, I realised: this was what I wanted to do. I didn't know how to do it; I just knew acting felt right.

I remember feeling a little guilty every time I opened a Chipotle. I felt guilty because I wasn't following my true passion. But that eventually went away. And I realized that this is my calling.

When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

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.

After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.

I've never tried to define my states of mind when I write.

It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Sometimes it's hard to tell where your instincts start and your baggage stops.

Every now and then, I feel terribly uncomfortable with what I'm working on, and then I think maybe I am an artist. I'm not very articulate about it, but I do know that you have to follow your gut.

And I know when I was younger, and still, I always marvel at what I feel is different from what I'm told that I'm supposed to feel.

Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.

Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.

Despite my mother saying I have been destined to be an actress my whole life, I remember being the kid who grew up not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.

Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.

Then a year would go by and I'd realize I love the acting too much and it is my identity and I don't know how to be anything but an actress. It's who and what I am, so I always come back.

The things that keep nagging at you are the ones worth exploring.

Oh, definitely and I talk about all the things that I really needed to make me happy at that point in time were outside of Mississippi, and now all the things that I need to make me happy are back there.

Even though I didn't realize that I was about to launch into a two-year struggle, a deep and compelling sense told me that I had to walk the path I'd chosen - or rather, the path that seemed to have chosen me.

I'm not a guy who looks for signs in the universe to tell him things. I believe that if you search hard enough for the answer you already know, you will find it.

With work and life, your true depth can become an alien thing to you. Your gut feelings, your instincts become buried.

The battle between free will and listening to the inner voice will remain eternal. Similarly, in the debate over material and spiritual rewards; you cannot have both, as the path to acquire each is different.

I don't think things will lead me astray, as long as I'm tapped into myself.

When I started writing poetry in my senior term of high school - I was sixteen - I felt in touch with a secret language. It gave me a sense of identity. I suddenly discovered I wasn't alone.

I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose... I know what my job is. And I always ran from it.