Zawe Ashton Quotes

I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.

Now, I've changed my life to make sure I work only on what I love.

The ultimate dream in life is to be able to do what you love and learn something from it.

A job should bring enough for a worker and family to live on, but after that, self-realization, the exercise of one's gifts and talents, is what truly matters.

If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.

My life and career is my own adventure.

Every woman has, for her own self-esteem, to work or have a major interest.

Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

I felt for a long time that this is what I want to do so I'm happy at this point to just take my time and work on projects that I feel strongly about, and the rest of the time just live my life.

You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.

My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life.

I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted. But no matter where I go, I still come home.

I tried to really look at what's best for my career, what's best for my life, what's best for my family, for me.

By your thirties, you should be doing whatever it is you're supposed to be doing with your life and just get on with it - which is what I suppose happened with me as much as to anyone else.

If you want to live a fulfilling life, then you have to do something that motivates you and also earns you a living.

I always thought I'd be a coach, but I'm still open to everything.

I need an anchor and I need to sort out one side of my life, so if I can sort my football out, even if it is abroad, then that will help in the long term.

I've been able to chart out my professional life. But I can never chart out my personal one.

You have to know what you want out of your work or out of your life.

Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become

There were a lot of people, I found, who'd rather watch me live my life than live their own life.

Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

It was important for me as a theater artist to allow myself and my interests to evolve over time and allow my notion of what success meant to evolve over time. I've always had a day job and never been just acting. But it didn't make me feel like I wasn't doing what I was supposed to be doing.