Liya Kebede Quotes

I do work that I feel I have something to contribute to.

I just want to be challenged. I want to be proud of what I do, and I want to learn new things and keep growing.

If you ever get to a point where you stop learning, you will find your professional options and your personal satisfaction severely curtailed.

Ultimately, I'm enjoying what I'm doing.

I like my life. I like competing, but it's not just because of the money.

It may be my rather puritanical upbringing at odds with my inborn laziness that makes me feel guilty at the end of the day, unless I am able to point at some achievement. But this need be no more impressive than cooking a meal or going for a long walk.

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

I think my work has become more interesting, well to me anyway.

I hope that in 5 years from now I'll be working and doing what makes me happy. Whatever that may be.

It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women.

I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom.

Sometimes I think, 'Why should I care about doing well in New Zealand?'

Doing something because it's quote-unquote a good career move doesn't really appeal to me.

Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be.

The whole goal for me with my career is just follow good projects and good parts and challenge myself as much as I can.

It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.

It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what?

I want to be challenged, I want to work, and I want to feel that I am not being held back, that there is something in front of me, something more inspiring than... just eating breakfast, you know?

I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.

I guess my ambition is simply to keep doing what I'm doing for as long as I can.

It's lovely to have a part that requires you to learn something that's also interesting.

I learn more with every job, and I'm very thankful for where I am.

I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.

I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.

I don't have to work just to work anymore. More interesting parts come my way, so I can afford to say, 'I don't want to make that.'