Robin Wright Quotes

As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.

I've just grown up a lot and started to encounter some of the big decisions of life in terms of what career I wanted to do and figuring out personal relationships and things.

I was going to be a lawyer, and I had studied hard, but then it suddenly occurred to me in a very deep, profound way that I didn't want to keep practicing law for the rest of my life.

Yeah, I think everybody has the crises of questioning themselves at some point or other in their lives. Is this where I should live? The job I should have? The girl I should be dating? Is this the friend I should have?

Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident. I kind of feel in between now.

I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that just wasn't me. I'm not a scholar; I didn't have a scholar's attitude toward literature.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

While I have always, felt like an outsider, it's because of the professional choices I have made, so it's not like I am planning to throw myself a giant pity party.

The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotlight, and I didn't. I was just Neil and I did what I was supposed to do. I was supposed to get married, so I got married. I was supposed to get a job, so I looked for work.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

I don't have regret about things I've done that are successful or not successful or what people perceive or don't know or whatever. I just know for me it had to be the right choice at the time. Sometimes that choice is just about getting a job.

We can all afford to do a little soul-searching about the choices we make and the way we live our lives, but sometimes searching one's soul doesn't provide the answers we seek.

People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn't much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of becoming a creative writer gelled.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

In 2013, I didn't work at all, just contemplating what I needed to do, whether I was walking in my destiny or not.

Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.

One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

I think my life is a movie and your life reflects your work.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

I love winter. It's a beautiful time, but also a melancholic time, a reflective time, and I'd come to a point in my life where I felt I had to make certain decisions about my career.

I started working at a time when most of my friends were still figuring their lives out.

What I went through in personal life had a big impression on my professional choices.

I haven't always made all of the right decisions from a career perspective, but things worked out in the end.