Tammy Blanchard Quotes

I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.

It's been fun. I've had a lucky life. Art has made me pull the best out of myself.

As an actress, if you find inspiration through my work, then my job is complete.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

The truest drive comes from doing what you love.

The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.

As long as I can apply my craft, I'm happy.

My characters are much more famous than I am, so I don't crave attention; I just crave working and doing good work. Having a feeling of self-worth.

If I have any basic motivation, it's to inspire people to make their life a masterpiece.

Do something great that you really believe is great.

Making a film is very gratifying and intoxicating. It does great things to your self-esteem, but pushing people and mentoring them to their full potential is far more fulfilling.

If you’re doing something you love with people you love in a place you love, you are going to create something of value to the world.

I am driven by great work and seeing people do incredible things and having a part in that.

Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.

I feel honored to be a part of something that provided people with entertainment and that inspired conversations. I feel very, very fortunate.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. The purpose of life is to matter-to count, to stand for something, to have it make so difference that we lived at all.

That's the happiest I am, when I'm doing great work.

In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best equipped to do, or doing well what we have undertaken as our personal contribution to the world's work, at least by way of an earnestly followed avocation, there will be a core of unhappiness in our lives which will be more and more difficult to ignore as the years pass.

The insignificant labor, the great create.

When you do something that works you have a happiness, but I don't know if it's a feeling of power. Power is a frightening thing and that's not what I'm interested in. I want to do certain things and make them right in my mind and that's it.

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Create a life you can't wait to live.

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

Millions of filmmakers would love to be in my position right now. If you are honest it makes the world a better place. I created the room with my passion and after all these years it finally worked out.