Urijah Faber Quotes

There have been a couple of jobs I've done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink.

I don't have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job.

A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.

To be honest, I am not really excited by most of the offers I get.

Having to go back to doing something I don't like and am not passionate about would be a tough thing.

The worst thing is to get involved with people who aren't passionate about what they're doing.

Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.

I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.

Things went in a direction that I didn't want to go. I started doing bit parts and things that are pretty much laid out for people in my position. The parts were pretty generic.

People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that.

In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear.

Acting had become something I did and did well - but didn't particularly enjoy.

'The Stepford Wives' was too big, and it was unsatisfying to do. Not that it was unsatisfying to do, but it was unsatisfying as a result because, as much as I loved parts of it, and I'm really proud of so much of it, the entire movie wasn't what I wanted it to be. It's my own fault; I didn't follow my instincts.

There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.

Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

I was starting to feel really suffocated, using the sequencer.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook.

So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.

That's the thing: You don't understand burnout unless you've been burned out. And it's something you can't even explain. It's just doing something you have absolutely no passion for.

I'm my own worst critic, and if I don't pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won't be a happy girl.

I remember rehearsing it, and it was the one that we were really excited about and thought would sound the best, and once it was down on tape, it was like, This doesn't actually sound that good.

…dull, stupid, lazy, stinking people.

The biggest advantage I have in this job is that I don't really want it.