Brian Tyree Henry Quotes

If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work.

I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.

I think that most people will spend their whole life not figuring out what they're meant to do, or figuring out what they're meant to do on their way to do something else. So I just feel lucky that I know what I love to do. Everything else figures itself out.

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

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.

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

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 am one of the lucky people in the world: I found something I always wanted to do, and I have enjoyed every single minute of it.

Work is a salvation. Work is how you connect with who you are, no matter how painful it might be.

A calling is the place where your gifts, abilities, desires, and feelings of worth all meet. When you follow your calling, you feel at home, at peace - you feel as though you're where you're meant to be.

I think sometimes we put too much of a gravity on what it is that we do... I just think you go out into the world, and if the door is open, pursue with excellence whatever it is that you feel you are called to pursue.

When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.

I don't know what kind of career I want to forge for myself. But I want it to be one where I love the work that I've done. And I like to think that I have good instincts.

I never choose jobs because of what I think I should do. I want to feel something. And with 'Beast,' it was very much like that.

You've got to find a sweet spot where you skill meets your passion, meets your job.

I think it's imperative to follow your heart and choose a profession you're passionate about, and if you haven't found that 'spark' yet, if you're not sure what you want to do with your lives - be persistent until you do.

I think doing something of your life is something that you've got deep inside, whether it's to, whether you want to be an astronaut or a, whether you want to do science, or whether you want to be a movie star, or whatever.

My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.

I think people tend to fall into their careers sometimes, and maybe that's a lucky path to follow because you actually end up doing your purpose.

This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being.

I love what I do. If I had my time over again, I'd probably do it for nothing.

If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.

I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me.

I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.

I want to do work that means something to me so that when I go to work at the theater eight times a week, I want to be there.