Lily Rabe Quotes

I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.

I am lucky enough not to have to take jobs unless I love the material.

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

I've been fortunate that I can be selective enough to do acting when it's really furthering what I want to do with my life.

I have experienced a tremendous amount of personal and professional growth, and I feel incredibly lucky that I'm able to make a career out of doing the things that I love.

If you're lucky enough to pick what you do, that's the greatest career you can have. Ultimately, that's my goal: to have choices.

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

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 not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.

I don't believe I want to retire, because I just enjoy and love my work so much.

What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again.

If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here - but I don't think I'd be sitting someplace where I was sorry to be sitting.

The thing with me is, if I wake up one morning and I'm not happy working as an actress, I'll stop. It's not something I have to do. It's not a vocation.

I feel very lucky to be able to call my hobby my job, yet it doesn't feel like one.

My mom always told me if I love what I'm doing, and I'm having fun, then just continue to do it. But if it's not fun for me anymore, and I'm miserable, then I'm going to go back to Texas and quit it all, to be honest.

When you get to a point where you're successful enough that you can say, 'I don't have to take any job anymore,' and you're still good at what you do, how do you decide what work to take on? I think the answer is that you pursue what you enjoy. In my case, it's variety.

I like what I'm doing. If I didn't like what I was doing, I'd be doing something else.

Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job - not a calling.

I don't think I've worked a day in my life.

I find success to be being able to do what you love and provide for your family by doing what you love.

I have to very consciously choose the kind of work I want to do.

Not everybody gets to wake up and do what they love.

I was always looking to be entertained. We lead such full lives and a lot of us don't lead very pleasant lives and don't like what we do... My dad worked his whole life as a salesman and that wasn't what he really wanted to do. He looked forward to two weeks vacation every year and he used to say to me, 'Whatever you do, make sure you do something you really like so you don't just have your vacation to look forward to.' And I love movies.

I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.

I just love what I do so much.