Freida Pinto Quotes

I feel I haven't been used to the fullest of my potential. There are so many genres to explore and diverse subjects to work on.

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

The money, the fame, if that comes, that's fantastic. But at the end of the day, my aim is to go to sleep at night content and have a purpose, and to know that I'm not swapping my life for money and some mind-numbing boring job, making easy money and protecting my brain.

It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life.

I'm voraciously looking to express myself in my work. I love my work.

Life is too short to be doing work that doesn't make you feel happy and fulfilled. I'd rather wait for the right project, as opposed to just taking whatever is handed to me.

It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.

'ER' was an all-consuming universe, but I don't have a single regret. It gave me some of the greatest friendships I have and afforded me one of the rarest commodities in an actor's life, which is the financial security to pick and choose jobs for factors besides the paycheck.

I have always enjoyed my work and have chosen only what I thought was interesting by way of a role.

Do you want an interesting job? Yes. Do you want a balanced life? Yes. And to make a contribution as well? Of course.

I feel one should do things which pleases them, and my progression into super model then to an actress and now to an entrepreneur is based on this.

I'm bored. I'm bored with the kind of parts I get offered. I can do more.

I just want to do stuff that gives me work satisfaction.

I don't have any regrets in my career.

What is success? I think the most important thing is to achieve what you set out to achieve. Just being a CEO in itself is not success. I would not relate success to a title or a position. My career has had a level of serendipity all along. I've never planned anything out more than a few years.

I just feel that at this particular time in my career, I've reached the pinnacle of my career, I've achieved a lot in that short amount of time, if you want to call it short, but I just feel that I don't have anything else to myself to prove.

As soon as I saw myself beginning to be way too comfortable on a film set or TV set, and not stimulated by it the way that I had been that had brought me to want to be there professionally and creatively, was the moment that I started getting really, really sad. I decided, "Okay, I just want to actually be here, how can I make this be interesting for me?"

I was very lucky to find a career which let me travel, sourcing stores in other countries, just the opportunities of the career in design and finance and all the things that make retailing - my career - interesting to me. That's why I started looking at community responsibility. I felt I should give of myself.

We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.

I've found my place in life, that I'm passionate about, my talents and my passion have merged, and I'm trying to do the best that I can.

Make sure everything you do you really like, because you have to sing it the rest of your life.

I'm sure nobody wants to just work and earn money and all that stuff. I know it's difficult for people to break out of the syndrome, doing a normal job.

As far as career goes, make sure you're in it for the right reasons - and make sure that the work itself is the most important thing.

Self-help books for those who believe 'You can have it all' often advise, 'Follow your bliss and money will follow.' With the collapse of the stock markets the reality of trade-offs is more like, 'When you follow your bliss, it's money you'll miss.'

It is not making better people of others that management is about. It's about making a better person of self. Income, power, and titles have nothing to do with that.