Martha Graham Quotes

I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

For years and years I have done the work I was born for.

I really knew with every fiber of my being that acting was - for lack of a better word - my calling.

I wasn't predestined to be a filmmaker; this wasn't an obvious choice to me.

Your work is not your job. Your job is what they pay you to do; your work is what you were born to do.

Your career is what you're paid for. Your calling is what you're made for.

I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.

I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

Only be an actor if you can't be happy doing anything else. I don't think you should be an actor if you want to be actor. I think you should be an actor if you have to be an actor.

When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

Sometimes you just know what you're placed on this earth to do.

There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting.

My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it. I felt a calling.

I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.

Comedy chose me.

Comedy wasn't something I chose - it chose me.

My wife asked me once if I weren't a comedian what I would do. I couldn't answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else.

I've always considered myself lucky that I do not have many passions. There's only one pursuit that I have ever truly loved, and that pursuit is writing. This means, conveniently enough, that I never had to search for my destiny; I only had to obey it.

I came out of the womb born to sing and dance. I have to follow my heart.