Trai Byers Quotes

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

I had moved back to Kenya after undergrad, and I went through this crisis of, 'What is my life going to be about?'

I was actually looking for answers where I kept asking myself - what am I doing?

Eventually, I had to figure out what the hell I was going to do with my life. I needed to find my way back to Fleetwood Mac.

I was a confused young man. I didn't know what I wanted to be.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.

I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

People go to college to find who they are as a person and find what they want to do in life, and I kind of already know that so it would be like I'd be taking a step back or something.

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?

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.

I always grapple with myself, from job to job, 'Is this going to make an impact in some way?'

I had no idea when I graduated from high school and then from graduate school what I wanted to do with my life. I had no idea that I was ever going to be an actor.

At 33 years old, I didn't have to work anymore. I had to search through 'What am I going to do for the rest of my life?' I wasn't ready to fly-fish for the rest of my life.

I went through a phase after we won the World Cup of 'what am I going to do with my life.'

I was just sort of young and went with the flow. It wasn't like I was 6 and knew I wanted to be an actor. I was thinking more along the lines of, I'm 6. When I was 20 I realized, I've never really thought about what I want to do. So I took a bunch of time off, stopped answering my phone, stopped doing anything. I'm pretty sure this is what I want to do, but I needed to be sure. It took me about two years to come around.

Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

Woman! Do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God!

Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.