Jeff Beck Quotes

Don't confuse having a career with having a life.

I don't live out my career, I live my life.

What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that's a very small aspect of my life.

I've built my career around my life instead of being consumed by the fame monster.

I feel like there are so many people I admire for so many reasons that I can't look at one person's life and say, "I want that life." I want to make my own history.

You can have children and love them with all your heart and soul, and love your family, and it's still OK to have a fire in you. That doesn't have anything to do with your family.

My life is my work. My work is my life

When I was 21 I stopped and got married. I tried for a while to be the perfect wife, society this, society that but it wasn't working, so after about a year I went back to work.

I'd like to think there'll be too much of real life going on for me to want to do much acting.

I think, if you've got children, that's your life. Your 'showbiz' life, if you want to call it that, is a separate thing, and it isn't everything to me.

I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.

I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

I'm having a great time. I get to travel and see the world. And yeah, I'll have a family, because I don't want to miss out on that amazing experience, but it's not defining who I am.

The person I am is who I am. My life is my career, my career is my life.

My career had zero to do with whether or not my husband also worked. It had everything to do with personal identity, personal goals, and making the most of my life.

I care most about how people live their lives, what choices they make, and how they get the best from themselves.

You have one life, and it can't be just about work because you lose out on so many amazing years of your life if you just work, work, and work.

I won't be training at 60 years old, because I want to do something else in my life.

I'm one hundred percent into my life, and into my fighting career. This is who I want to be in the future - as a mother - and if I'm going to leave the sport, I leave the sport. When I finish with fighting, I'm done.

My life is way bigger than boxing or acting or being rich or being famous or endorsements.

What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story.

I joke that I stick with the job because it covers my insurance, but the reality is that my career has always been very important to me.

As time goes on and you become more comfortable in your career path, and things are starting to make sense, and it's not just about work, you find that you're able to focus on other things and other people.

work is happiness. No one can take my work from me and therefore no one can take my happiness from me.