Ben Falcone Quotes

I didn't want to get married, and I didn't want kids - I knew I wanted to act.

I know it's cliche to say, 'When you do something you love you never work a day in your life.' But it is true: When you do something you love, life gets to be a little bit easier and enjoyable. So I just want people to follow their dreams.

If you can build your career around your passions, then you're winning in life; that's one of the best things you can ask for.

I really want to keep modelling, but it's not my number one goal in life. But it's so fun. I love doing it; it's just that - it's not like I just want to be a model when I'm older.

You just want to be able to have a nice career and make a living at it.

Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.

My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.

I went to school for eight years to be a dentist. Sorry if the person in the fifth row doesn't like it and thinks I should be a bag guy because people hate the dentist. People might not like the dentist, but they do like people who chase their dreams.

Too many times I see kids come up to me, especially at the high school age, and say, 'Man, it would be cool to play in the NFL just because of the money.' And I'm like, 'Oh my goodness, you are missing everything, because money is not going to make you happy.'

Day-to-day concerns really trumped big dreams for quite a while in my life. I was so freaked out about money. And until, honestly, I was in my early thirties and made 'Girlfight,' that anxiety was a real issue: How are you going to live? How are you going to survive?

I have no understanding as to why you wouldn't try to make what you're passionate about work for you.

I can cry myself to sleep because I'm not as great as Leonard Cohen, but who cares? Maybe you can't be as great as some people, but it's a tragedy when you don't follow your dreams.

When a child has a dream and a parent says, "It's not financially feasible; you can't make a living at that; don't do it," we say to the child, run away from home... You must follow your dream. You will never be joyful if you don't. Your dream may change, but you've got to stay after your dreams. You have to.

All I ever wanted to do was act. And pay my bills

If you follow your dreams and spend your life doing what brings you joy, you are more likely to find success

I had my dreams, and even though everyone told me that they weren't practical, I knew in my heart that this is what I had to do. Even if it ended up being a failure, I had to make the attempt.

I had a million jobs before I managed to make a living out of poetry.

If you think of people, the majority of us, we can't do what we really love. I am really grateful that I can work with my dream.

I find success to be being able to do what you love and provide for your family by doing what you love.

You don't have to give up your dreams in order to earn a living - they can go hand in hand.

I'm the first person in my family to go to college, and I'm an immigrant. My aspirations coming out of college weren't particularly lofty. I wanted a good job with a good company.

Financially, I've done very well doing what I do. I've got plenty of money in the bank. I've got gigs with FOX doing analyst work, media work. The UFC has been very kind to me. Ultimately, however, I want to be world champion. I have to achieve that to validate my entire career.

I am personally an idealist. I was lucky enough to follow my dreams in my own life, so you should definitely follow your dreams.

You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.

Of course we live in a world where we have to make money to eat so that's always nice to be able to sing and make money but to do something I love and to be able to eat from...it's great.