Angelina Jolie Quotes

In an ideal world, nobody's work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence in what they do, take pride in achievement, and derive meaning from knowing that their work improved the lives of others.

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

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

There's not anyone in particular I'd like to work with. I just want to continue doing work that I have a passion for.

I do work that I feel I have something to contribute to.

I just want to do stuff that gives me work satisfaction.

Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy.

There is nothing more marvelous than doing something you love to do and getting paid for it. It ceases to become work, money, and effort; and it becomes fun, your expression of the joy of life.

I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do.

I don't want to think my life as a career. I'm interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make.

Let work itself be the ambition.

To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.

The majority of people consider their work a means to an end. People who work for money only come to the end faster than people who are involved in their life’s purpose every day.

I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives.

Everybody should get to make a living with their passion.

After 'Secretary,' I was wanting very badly to find something to make that I really cared about.

I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why should I work and worry any longer?

If you can figure out how to get paid to do something you love, that's the dream.

The most important lesson I've learned is how rich and rewarding life is when one can engage in meaningful work, whether on the job or outside of work.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.

I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.

It just seems there's better things to do in your life than be on television if it's not interesting, if it's not challenging, if it's not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I'll stop making television.

People ask whether I put the politics first, journalism first or the comedy first; it doesn't really matter. I'm just playing with the cards that I have been dealt because I really love doing what I do.

I don't look at things goin', 'Oh, is this gonna make me rich? Is this gonna make me a star? Am I gonna win awards?' If all that stuff happens, great. Who cares? I still have to wake up in the morning and go to work and be happy to do it.