Geraldine Page Quotes

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.

No matter what you accomplish, when you're doing something you're truly passionate about... the opportunities are always going to be bigger.

Acting was a godsend. I found myself because I loved acting.

If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.

It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere.

I've got something to live for, because I always wanted to be an artist; I always wanted to be famous.

The most important thing in life is, if you have a dream, I mean a real good dream, follow it.

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

I've learned over the years that you're going to be most successful at the things you're most excited to do. Every artist has a special set of tools. When you really use those tools, and you make yourself feel really good about the product you create, I think you'll find an audience for it. I've been very fortunate in that respect.

I think the more important task for a young person than developing a personal brand is figuring out what she's great at, what she loves to do, and how she can use that to leave an imprint in the world. Those are tough questions, but essential ones. Answer those - and the personal brand follows.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.

When I walk out on that stage, I just want America to know, that this is what I'm supposed to do. This is my dream.

I think anyone who has a passion for what they love to do, and who pursue it, is inspirational for me.

Acting was the only place that I ever felt like I belonged so went for it with everything I had.

I only had one focus and one direction, and I knew where my spirit and heart lived, and it was in singing and dancing and acting, being that. I know a lot of young people dream that, but it's good that it worked out for me because it was all I ever wanted to do.

We had a great dramatics department in school, so I did a lot of plays and theatre there. Later, when I was the captain of our student's ward, I figured out that if you find something you really love to do, you don't have to work for the rest of your life! You can just have fun and still excel in it because you enjoy what you do.

Everyone needs something they're good at. You want your kids to be passionate and figure out something they're good at.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

I knew that someday I would be discovered.

I didn't have any great talent. I didn't want to become a rock star or an author.

I knew I had a lot to offer, and it was just about finding my niche and figuring it out.

Acting is my passion since childhood, and I am happy to be in Tinsel Town at a very young age.

Yes, you can do it. You can dream about being on the cover of magazines; you can dream about being in a film.

Everybody from my childhood growing up had to have that confidence, that self-will. Go out there and do something, be something, prove that you're gonna be more than this.