Brie Larson Quotes

Your career is what you're paid for. Your calling is what you're made for.

I am proud to be an actor.

There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting.

The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.

When I started making music, I was like, 'This is something I can believe I was meant to do.'

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.

It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.

I'm an actor first and foremost; it's my first love and passion.

I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.

The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.

I really knew with every fiber of my being that acting was - for lack of a better word - my calling.

I'm a singer, and I never lost sight of that.

Destiny has put me in the profession that has kept me happy, and where I was supposed to be.

A job is how you make money. A career is how you make your mark. A calling is how you acknowledge a higher vision, whatever it may be.

We may at times be unemployed, but no one ever becomes uncalled.

Your work is not your job. Your job is what they pay you to do; your work is what you were born to do.

They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.

When I got on stage, I felt this bolt of electricity hit me, and it was this shock of, 'This is exactly what I'm supposed to do with my life.'

I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.

I look at my voice and my abilities as a gift. I don't feel that I can even take any credit for it, but it's such a huge presence in my life. It is my life. It's my identity, it's everything. And it's given me a great deal of joy and a sense of purpose - I can't imagine my life without it.

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

Whatever your calling is as a service, follow it - that's beautiful.

It's up to the actor to make sure they don't get typecast.