Anson Mount Quotes

The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.

The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

This life that I've led has been really well suited for me.

Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

I'm not really concerned with the outer success.

There is more to life than show business.

I am happy with the roles I play.

I'm very ambitious. But my overall goal, above ambition, is that I want to be happy with what I'm doing, and I want to be happy with myself.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

I want an identity outside of my work.

My success is not who I am.

I have come a long way and learnt a lot. I read this quote about a year ago: 'Happiness must not be pursued; it must ensue.' It's made me realise that just being married again or something like that won't make me happy; the happiness ensues from how we live our lives.

I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.

Your life is meant for you to understand and process, not to make anyone else happy.

I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

I couldn't change who I am; I couldn't change the kind of player I am.

I have this firm belief that I am who I am for a reason. If I change something, I'm cheating myself of whatever it is I'm supposed to learn from my body. You know, I'm legally blind. I'm 20/750, since I was in fifth grade. I wear glasses and contacts. But I won't even get LASIK.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

I've always known there's more to life than just racing for a long time.

I feel like regardless of whether or not I win this award or I win that award or I don't win this award - I'm still Sam at the end of the day. And that's what defines me.