Frank Vincent Quotes

I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.

Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.

At times, I think of my career as a map. The closer you get to the map, the more you know where you are, but the closer I get to my career, the less happy I feel. At the same time, I have carved out the career for myself which I wanted.

Passion is what gives meaning to our lives. It's what allows us to achieve success beyond our wildest imagination. Try to find a career path that you have a passion for.

To me, I think I'm just going to keep focused and forward on what I'm doing, work-wise, rather than searching for any kind of meaning in it.

After 'Raymond,' there was this big feeling of, 'What do I do next?'

I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen.

I work because I want to work. Work keeps me going.

Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.

If there is a job that you feel passionate about, do what you can to pursue that job; if there is a purpose about which you are passionate, dedicate yourself to that purpose.

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.

I don't know if I have a career or not, or where it ends or it begins. I have been working, doing what I do for a long time. But my creative process has always been so tortuous.

I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.

Many people find their calling very early in their lives. These are the kind of people we read about in school books and newspapers. Then there are some who don't have a clue of what they want to do in their lives; I am belong to the latter category.

It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

I've always had a hunger for realizing myself through my career.

It didn't seem remotely possible. I had no idea how people got those jobs, I didn't know what the steps were, it never even dawned on me. It seemed so outside the realm of possibility.

I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.

When I got out of school, I didn't really understand the differences in the different aspects of the business. For example, doing a play - where does that take you versus, you know, concentrating on independent films? You might have one thing in your head, but the things you're doing don't really lead down the right road, necessarily.

If you're not working on something you're passionate about, it's a long, hard road.

I'm so jealous of people who in second grade knew what they wanted to do.

Best way to measure your passion is simply asking would you do it for free? If money is your motivation, then it's not really your passion.