Finley Peter Dunne Quotes

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

I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it.

My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

In fact I spent a lot of time in my childhood trying to figure out what other people wanted of me. That made me study other people very much. Then I actually started university and I got quite bored. This is when I found out I wanted to be an actor.

I studied B.Sc electronics to be an engineer and later did masters in communication and advertising. I loved engineering for what it could accomplish to make our lives easier. But, I realised that it was not my passion.

What am I going to do if I stop fighting? Study? Soccer?

You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.

If you're going to school, you should do what you enjoy.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

I washed dishes so I could make movies. it was never a way for me to make money.

I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me.

I never knew modelling was what I wanted to do. I was just meandering through life having fun, having a laugh with my friends.

Definitely working on 'Deal or No Deal' was a learning experience, and it helped me to understand what I would rather be doing.

I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.

If you're following your dreams, you're doing something you love and that you believe in yourself for.

I get to be a teenager like every other teenager, but I have a passion and a great goal in life.

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.

I want more out of life than I've gotten.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

I'm 23, so I'm not done with my life. But acting, definitely, out of what I've done so far, makes me feel the most alive and is very invigorating and thrilling. So I figured I might as well try it for a while.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

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

I feel really lucky that I'm able to pursue the work that I love. I want my children to see that. I want them to have that for themselves, something that they love, that they do, that they pursue in their lives as a way of growing and learning.

You know, I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of trying to answer the daunting question of 'What's your passion?' it's better simply to watch what you do when you've got time of your own and nobody's looking.