Sean Doolittle Quotes

Richard Donner's friendship and guidance showed me that there's more to life than being an actor.

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

I worked in an insurance office for six years, and it was there that I just woke up one day and realised there was something massively lacking in my life, and a non-contributory pension and a subsidised canteen could not fill it.

It's getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work... I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

Everything I've done has been personally fun, important, and meaningful to me.

I've always wondered, what am I going to do that's important with these stupid jokes that I tell.

The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.

There was a point where I was making four movies a year. I was always on a set. I had no stories to tell. I was feeling empty. My life was just luggage and hotels and from set to set, from character to character. And one day, I said, 'And where is mine?' You know? And the moment I started to feel that fear, I stopped and I slowed down.

I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.

If I'm not a successful human being, who I am?

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

I went through a lot of occupations. I was questioning my contribution to the world.

The questions I'm asking myself are, 'What makes me happy? Where do I want to be? What will make me happy at 50, 60 and 70?'

I never wanted to be defined by what I did for a living.

I think I was on this very straightforward escalator - grammar school, high school, college, get a job on Wall Street, kind of everything leads to the next thing. But at what point do you get to step back and say, 'I'd like to take a broader view of my time on this planet?'

'Who do you think you are?' That's the big one, isn't it? A flourishing life depends on how you answer that.

Turning 30 changed me in ways I didn't expect. For the very first time, I felt like my life is valuable. Not my life because I'm putting something good into the world or I'm well-respected in my field, but my life as a human being on this planet for a limited amount of time.

You have to look yourself in the eye and ask, 'Who are you?' It can't be all about work.

I'm 19. I'm in the process of growing up and figuring out where I'm supposed to be in my life. But it is kind of weird when I realize that other people look to me as inspiration.

You learn very quickly where you feel fulfilled and where you don't.

My life is real.

Tennis is great, but it doesn't necessarily define me.

At 33 years old, I didn't have to work anymore. I had to search through 'What am I going to do for the rest of my life?' I wasn't ready to fly-fish for the rest of my life.

Everyone goes through that time in their life when they're trying to figure out who they are, find their own purpose and their own way.