Mark Billingham Quotes

I would never have changed anything in the past. I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.

It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.'

Study what you love, and you'll never have to work a day in your life. It'll be one great adventure.

I'm not interested in becoming a bigger star, I'm not interested in being the wealthiest guy in the world. I'm doing fine, I love acting, and I want to do it for the rest of my life.

I don't look at things goin', 'Oh, is this gonna make me rich? Is this gonna make me a star? Am I gonna win awards?' If all that stuff happens, great. Who cares? I still have to wake up in the morning and go to work and be happy to do it.

Donner likes what he does and enjoys being on a set. He doesn't have to do it, its not like he has to make the rent. When I get to be his age and still enjoy what I'm doing like him, I'd be lucky.

I'm just happy to be doing what I always wanted to do. Sometimes you have to remind yourself how privileged you are.

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

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.

I've earned a lot of money, seen everything, and have a wonderful family. What else can I do?

I don't have a lot of lifetime regrets, and very few show business regrets, surely.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life.

You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off.

I gave everything in my career so I have no regrets at all.

I wouldn't change my life for anything. I am exactly where I want to be and have no plans to ever retire.

I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.

I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.

My life is so much better than I thought it was going to be.

I have this amazing life.

Sometimes I wonder why I'm not working at McDonald's and how come I have the life I have. I don't know. But I'm happy that I have these choices. That's kinda sappy, huh? But whatever, acting beats pumping gas.

It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.

I want to live a full life - period.