Mila Kunis Quotes

I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.

If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it.

I realized I didn't need to go to work every day. I could work for the pleasure and the challenge, not for the mortgage payment.

I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird.

My security comes from the fact that I've never done a job for money.

I am lucky enough not to have to take jobs unless I love the material.

Hey, I'm not rich, but I'm lucky. I get to do what I want to do. That's not an easy thing to do in this country.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.

I'm really lucky because I found myself in a position where I can do whatever I want to do. I can make records, produce records, make movies, or I can do nothing. I'm not a slave to the dollar.

The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.

If you're lucky enough to pick what you do, that's the greatest career you can have. Ultimately, that's my goal: to have choices.

To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.

Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work?

I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny.

Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it's just about projects that turn me on.

I'd never take a job where I had to do something that I didn't want to do.

I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand, it's good to have another job. It gives you something to do.

I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L.A. and choose roles that I wanted to do instead of roles that I had to do to pay the bills.

There is the freedom from want, despair and psychological insecurity that would come from having income sufficient to provide the necessities of life. But there is also the freedom to choose not to work for a time in order to take care of family members, pursue a passion, acquire education or contribute to a worthwhile community project. There is the freedom to start a new business with an uncertain future, the freedom to say yes to a job that pays little but yields joy and satisfaction — and the freedom to say no to a job that pays too little or is demeaning and unpleasant. Why, they ask, should such freedoms be reserved only for the wealthy?

I specifically left the corporate world so I could wear T-shirts, blue jeans, and honestly, I always wanted to be my own boss.

Exactly what I'm doing is what success looks like. I get to create on my own terms, on my own timeline, and I'm able to support myself and my mom and my cat comfortably.

I get to do what I want. And I get paid millions of dollars to do it.

I work when, and where I want to.