Aja Naomi King Quotes

I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.

I told everyone that acting's for losers and I needed to get an education. But something kept telling me to give it one last chance. In the end, I lasted a month on the M.B.A. and then decided to quit, come back to L.A., and try again.

I ask myself a lot of question about my work as an actress. We shall see. Plenty of friends tell me, 'Of course you must continue acting,' but I'm not sure.

To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

Never place a period where God has placed a comma.

Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.

The hardest part when I decided to move into acting was trusting I'd made the right decision.

When I turn down work, I feel guilty, I feel terrible; I don't know where the next job is going to come from.

There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.

I decided to give acting a serious, committed try, and soon after, I read the script for 'Lovely and Amazing.' The story was beautiful and honest, and the characters struggled with the same insecurities many women - including me - face. I didn't think I had a chance in hell of being in the film, but I knew I had to go for it.

It is impossible to know what fate will bring. If you love to write or paint, you will keep on writing or painting, and things will either work out or not, and you just have to keep being in the process.

I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.

When I left 'Days of Our Lives,' I was like, 'I don't know if I'm ever working again. I'm going to do the best I can. If it happens, great. If not, well... it sucks for me.'

Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.

The good Lord is amazing; He opens up doors. I was close to abandoning the dream, and He was like, 'Hey, slow down there, buddy.'

I was always told that music isn't a 'realistic' path to take, and like a normal human being, I doubted myself over and over because I was afraid of failure.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional baseball player, but I got injured in college. When I decided to move out to L.A. to try acting, nobody was betting on me, not even my family. But it's always been that way for me; nothing has come easy.

I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.

There have been moments where I'm like, 'I don't know how I'm going to survive and pay next month's rent.' And the next month I'm filming a movie in New York City.

I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

I don't know what God has planned for me or you or anyone, but I do know that in darkness, you discover an indistinguishable light.

Like all pioneers I have labored more in faith and hope.

Before 'Homeland,' I had £80 in the bank and no idea what I was going to do. I seriously considered giving it all up and getting a job as a lorry driver.