Idina Menzel Quotes

I couldn't do an acting job just to be working. It really had to have some soul to it.

I'm choosy to a fault. You want to hold out for a project that means something. You're the one who's there working fifteen hours a day, and if you don't believe in it, it can feel a whole lot longer.

The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.

Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.

It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

I've always been fussier than I can afford to be. I don't just want to do whatever it takes to be successful, I want to do what I consider to be good stuff. If I'm not engaged in something, it doesn't matter what it is and who's doing it.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

It's not about working anymore, its about doing work I can be proud of.

Early in my career, I was really spoiled with a beautiful project. I got such a good start that I thought, 'Why would I ever take a step back?' Why would I take on something that wasn't meaningful - to me, if nobody else - and powerful and groundbreaking?

My mum wouldn't do a film for money. She does it as a passion. That's why she's involved in things that are so brilliant. She really cares about what she does.

I do things that I actually love and understand.

I love the people I work with and the stuff I've found and that's found me.

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.

Do what you love, and do it well - that's much more meaningful than any metric.

I'm trying so hard to do something that means something and has integrity and cares about talent.

The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.

I do what I love every day.

A job is something you do for money. Your life's work is done for a bigger purpose... And when you manage to find that work - that's when it starts feeling like play.

I'm really happy to be able to live my life doing what I love.

Do the work you believe in - if there's an authentic reason for doing it.

There's nothing more nourishing to the spirit than doing what you feel called to do.

When it comes to anything you want to do in your life, you have to be passionate. Success may come, but in the end, the most important thing is that you are doing what you really want to do.

I was drawn to journalism as a young guy because I felt like there was some purpose to it, not always but sometimes.

I actually think most people do what they love because it's really important to them.

When you get to do things you love with every fiber of your being, it's a different experience.