Victoria Wood Quotes

But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I'm interested in? Is it something I enjoy?

Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had.

If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.

My family thought it was insanity for me to go into the theater rather than to get an education.

I don't want to stay on the road for the rest of my life. I have two kids.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.

I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

Money is not the reason that people enter teaching.

I want to live a good life and pay my taxes. 'The Killing' was a blessing. It was two wonderful years. But I had reached a point in my life, especially with a young son, that I was no longer willing to compromise my life for the sake of a paycheque. I was no longer willing to move where the tax credits are strong.

I'm just living my life.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.

I read a quote by James Dean when I was 17; he said, 'I'd rather starve than do a whole bunch of work that I don't care about.' The older I got, the more I understood what he was saying. If I want to do a whole lot of work that I don't care about, then I would probably be working in a law office somewhere.

I'm 23, so I'm not done with my life. But acting, definitely, out of what I've done so far, makes me feel the most alive and is very invigorating and thrilling. So I figured I might as well try it for a while.

Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.

Now is the one time in my life I can be 100% selfish. I'm not married; I don't have kids; I can focus on my career.

You know, I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of trying to answer the daunting question of 'What's your passion?' it's better simply to watch what you do when you've got time of your own and nobody's looking.

Gaining my education from practical experience certainly benefited me. If I had gone on to be a lawyer, my life wouldn't have been anywhere near as interesting.

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.