Aleister Black Quotes

The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.

Acting is all I've ever done, and I've nothing else to make comparisons with when anyone asks me whether I've ever wanted anything else out of life. It's given me enough satisfaction so that I haven't wanted or had to look for anything else.

If you can't do what you want to do in your life, then it is difficult.

I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.

Modeling was not an endgame for me. I didn't particularly enjoy the act of it.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.

What interests me is being alive and being with friends that I care about and being as creative as I can given circumstance.

For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.

That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young, then I would get to be in my 40's and I'd be really unhappy that I hadn't.

I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.

I don't want to do anything that I'm not passionate about.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work.

There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achieve the success in the industry I want, and get married. If I achieve both of those, I can die completely stoked. I don't need anything else.

When I was 17 or 18 and it was time to figure out what to do with my life, I realized that I didn't enjoy anything as much as I enjoyed playing music. I felt that I had no choice: that I had to become a musician.

It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy.

I am not on this planet to get something done - the things we accomplish are expressions of our purpose.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

Art was - and is - my biggest outlet. I'd probably die if I didn't do it.

The minute you decide to do what you love to do, you have made a life plan for yourself and a career choice.

I've found my purpose in life, definitely.

You have to be able to wake up every day and be happy with what your decision in life is, and that's why I never recruit.