Lillie Langtry Quotes

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

There comes a point when you have to be more than an actor, and doing something else that means a lot to me has actually made me a stronger actor. It's stimulated something else in my brain and heart.

The money, the fame, if that comes, that's fantastic. But at the end of the day, my aim is to go to sleep at night content and have a purpose, and to know that I'm not swapping my life for money and some mind-numbing boring job, making easy money and protecting my brain.

Swapping out the nine-to-five for a more agile, independent working life brings with it one other huge benefit - a channel for self-actualization.

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.

That my business success is equal to my personal life.

I have a harder time finding somebody. The problem is we were growing professionally during the years most people were concentrating on being a person.

As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.

Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.

Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything.

I'm voraciously looking to express myself in my work. I love my work.

Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if you don't, you still won't hate going to work.

I love what I do. I love the invigoration of doing things I haven't done before.

I've enjoyed my time as an actor, but felt work was becoming repetitive.

If I try to age more naturally without caging myself in, I believe I'll be able to become a more mature adult.

You can be in show business and have a happy, productive life. But you have to be a developed human being before you can do that.

I'm settled emotionally and mentally because of my partner, and a lot of my growth has happened post-marriage.

Education doesn't just make us smarter. It makes us whole.

I just want to do stuff that gives me work satisfaction.

I'm not afraid to improve myself spiritually, emotionally, economically. I'm not afraid to take on that challenge.

Every new project, every new team and everything teaches you with something which you haven't learnt or done before.

The work that I do doesn't make me feel uptight, It energises me.

As you get older and as you experience and go through different things you realize you have to set boundaries. You have to for your life. You have to say this is OK and this is not OK. This is what I do for a living and this is my life. It's the only one I get and so I have to set boundaries.

One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.