Carrie-Anne Moss Quotes

A lot of actors think they can't be happy without the acting... But I think I couldn't be happy with it anymore.

It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

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.

Pursuing your passion is fulfilling and leads to financial freedom.

Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.

Work takes on new meaning when you feel you are pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it's just a job, and life is too short for that.

I've said that if you're not doing something that you're passionate about, you're compromising yourself every single day.

Everything I've done has been personally fun, important, and meaningful to me.

I don't want to do anything that I'm not passionate about.

I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters.

If you've got to work for the rest of your life, you'd better do something you'll enjoy.

Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.

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.

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.

My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.

To me, spending your life doing what you love is a gift. Everyone enjoys different walks of life, so find what you love to do and try to make a living at it.

Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them.

Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movies. It is a lot less pressure than being a surgeon; although it seemed like the only other thing that I was qualified for was manual labour.

When you're working and making money, that's all good, but there has to be something that provides a substance, I think.

I'm relevant because I fill a void for people who aren't doing what they want to do in life.

What career? A man's got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it because I think I can do a good job of something and I'll enjoy it, do it, and sort of vanish. I don't want to be an actor for hire.

Even if some days I feel like I'm ready to fall apart, I am ultimately happier than I've ever been. My family gives me more joy than I thought possible, and my career fulfills me tremendously. All in all, I feel like am in the exact place I am supposed to be in, doing exactly what I am supposed to be doing.

There are a lot of bitter people out there who have got jobs that they hate and the key to life for me is doing something you love doing.

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.