Mia Wasikowska Quotes

I'm thrilled I can make a living doing something I enjoy.

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

I always grapple with myself, from job to job, 'Is this going to make an impact in some way?'

Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy.

To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.

I think every woman has this point in her life where she's like, 'I have a great job, great outfits and great friends, but something's missing.'

Everybody should get to make a living with their passion.

I don't want to spend my life doing jobs that I don't care about.

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

I'm probably satisfied with my career 80 percent of the time.

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

I really enjoy my time off. If I'm going to go to work, it has to be something I really believe in, or else it's totally tedious.

It just seems there's better things to do in your life than be on television if it's not interesting, if it's not challenging, if it's not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I'll stop making television.

I love what I do, and I'm not doing anything either for money or for the sake of some unfulfilled ambition.

I think there's a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful.

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

After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it.

I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.

Asked to give advice to a 13-year-old girl about how to lead her life, I say find something you love to do. The goal shouldn't be accumulating money. It might be making changes in the world, or in your country.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

I believe that we have been doing this not primarily to achieve riches or even honour, but rather because we were interested in the work, enjoyed doing it and felt very strongly that it was worthwhile.

I've learned to take jobs as an actress that is meaningful to me because I've never taken a job for the money.

I know a lot of people my age are still trying to figure out what to do, and I consider myself lucky that I can make a living doing something that I truly enjoy.

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.