Lily Rabe Quotes

I just love what I do so much.

If you can figure out how to get paid to do something you love, that's the dream.

This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.

I have the distinct pleasure of doing exactly what I want to do and get paid for it. It's a joy.

It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living.

I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life.

A lot of people don't enjoy their job, they may even hate it, but I am lucky enough to be able to make a living through my passion.

I don't believe I want to retire, because I just enjoy and love my work so much.

I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning.

If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn't change anything. I probably would have paid for the pleasure of working.

You're going to spend a long time with the stuff you work on; you might as well like it.

You have to love your job.

My career is my whole life, so if I'm not happy with that, it affects everything else.

I can honestly say I am the luckiest man around to be able to have worked at a job I love for so many years. It's truly been a joy for me.

If you're lucky enough to find success at a job that you love then I don't think you have much right to complain, to be honest.

Passion should meet your professional life, and I'm a living, breathing testament to that.

Because the job is still really exciting, and I still get nervous on the first day of shooting. But all the nonsense that surrounds it - that can be on your own terms.

I love my job. I love waking up in the morning and doing this, and I want to continue making a living doing it.

I am happy and content with my work and career.

I feel like if you have balance in life, you have to be consumed by your job because, ultimately, it will never be a job; it will never be something that you feel you're working on.

I never thought that I would treasure doing my job, and I have reached that point. I've gotten to a point where it's like the priesthood: this is what I was called to do.

You've got to find a sweet spot where you skill meets your passion, meets your job.

I would never accept a role that wasn't going to stretch me or challenge me in some way. I'd say Holy Smoke! probably did that more than anything I'd ever done. It took me to places I didn't actually know I could go to, and that's what I want my career to be all about.

We enjoyed such amazing success on Sex and the City. You don't expect success on that level, it was such a big deal, and it was so intense and wonderful that it is hard for anything else to live up to it, quite frankly. So now I just try to have fun and work with interesting people. I think that there is a perception that certain films won't be popular. So it was great that The Devil Wears Prada did really well.

It seems to me, that's the only thing that ends up being really fulfilling or satisfying - your career.