Brie Larson Quotes

At about twelve I just knew, something clicked, and I knew I wanted to be an actor and my parents, to their credit, granted this 12 year old girl a chance to give it a try.

I sang in church at 5. When I saw the reaction, I knew what I wanted to do with my life.

I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do.

Many people find their calling very early in their lives. These are the kind of people we read about in school books and newspapers. Then there are some who don't have a clue of what they want to do in their lives; I am belong to the latter category.

After I graduated high school and came out to do 'Buffy,' I was enrolled at my mom's university, and I was going to go get a real job. I never thought of acting and never really wanted to be an actor.

I had no idea when I graduated from high school and then from graduate school what I wanted to do with my life. I had no idea that I was ever going to be an actor.

I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. But then a lady at the youth theatre asked me if I'd ever thought of going to drama school.

I think God made this very path for me, and he guided me all throughout. And my family has always been very supportive. It's not like one day I sat across the dinner table and told them I want to be an actor. It didn't happen like that.

Very early on in this process though I studied acting in high school and college, soon after graduation, I walked away from the craft because I wanted to know that this is what I was supposed to do with my life.

Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take.

Everyone has a dharma or purpose in life.

It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent.

Do what you were born to do. You just have to trust yourself.

Focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life's purpose.

I think the first half of my 20s I felt I had to achieve, achieve, achieve. A lot of men do this. I'm looking around now and I'm like, Where am I running?

Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading.

Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.

I do not know who I am, where I am going - and I am the one who has to decide the answers to these hideous questions.

Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.

Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?

She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things.

We have to steer our true life’s course. Whatever your calling is in life! The whole purpose of being here is to figure out what that is as soon as possible, so you go about the business of being on track, of not being owned by what your mother said, what society said, whatever people think a woman is supposed to be when you can exceed other people’s expectations and be defined by your own!

When you find your purpose, it is like your heart has been set alight with passion. You know it absolutely, without any doubt.

The key to life is to figure out who to be the batboy for.