Grace Gummer Quotes

I've spent my life following my passion.

Do what you love. Do what is important to you and your family. I just want to encourage people to just go for it and do what makes sense to you.

I'm of the mind that life is a risk, every time you leave your house it's a risk, and I see no reason to go through life with my hands tied behind my back for any reason. I'd be foolish to let something stop me from doing what I love to do.

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

I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'

That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young, then I would get to be in my 40's and I'd be really unhappy that I hadn't.

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

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.

I was thinking of going to college or staying in L.A. to act, and I stayed to give it a chance. I'm glad I did. I've had a lot of wonderful experiences - some horrible ones, but mostly really beautiful ones.

I couldn't stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films.

I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work.

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

I just want to make whatever is exciting.

If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.

I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.'

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

I was anxious before I decided to go back to acting about what I wanted to do with my life. Once I realized I was sort of interested in acting, I've been pretty lucky and had all these great parts. And I feel pretty much like, 'What will happen will happen.'

Life is too short to be scared and not take risks. I'd rather be the person that's like, 'I messed up,' than, 'I wish I did that.'

The minute you decide to do what you love to do, you have made a life plan for yourself and a career choice.

Just do what makes you happy and try. Just go out and audition.

Lot of people know very early what they want, but I didn't know I wanted acting.

You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest.

It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.