Jon Richardson Quotes

I definitely don't think I'm going to have a mid-life crisis.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.

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).

As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.

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

Sometimes I wake up and think, 'How did I get here?'

I don't like the term mid-life crisis.

It was one of those early mid-life crises, really. I started asking myself, 'What is it that I want from my life?' This question kept haunting me: 'Do I want to be a lawyer who always wanted to be a writer, or do I actually want to be a writer?

Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So good night, dear void. - You've Got Mail

I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point.

I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live.

I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever.

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

The biggest temptation I believe is to feel comfortable, to feel like you've worked through all of that here on Earth, and are satisfied with this life.

Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here.

I have no advice for anyone on how to live.

I'm trying to learn, as I'm in my 40s, to embrace what I've been able to achieve and be proud of it. And I know there's roles that I will want to play before I die, but I'm still just taking one day at a time.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, 'where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that.

I was in college that first semester, and I was like, 'Wow, this isn't who I am. This isn't what I want to do.' I was like, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to go out and make something of myself, and I have no clue what that is.'

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

I just had one of those 'what the hell are we doing' moments.

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.