Faye Dunaway Quotes

Sometimes, taking a job is like going to a shrink or something, where you get to know yourself better.

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

I have to work, for my soul.

I don't want to work to make money. I want to work to work.

I always grapple with myself, from job to job, 'Is this going to make an impact in some way?'

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

I never really thought about what kind of career I wanted to map out for myself. I just wanted to do work that spoke to my heart. 'Atlanta' definitely did that.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

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

I read a quote by James Dean when I was 17; he said, 'I'd rather starve than do a whole bunch of work that I don't care about.' The older I got, the more I understood what he was saying. If I want to do a whole lot of work that I don't care about, then I would probably be working in a law office somewhere.

I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.

This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being.

For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.

I think there's a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

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.

People go to college to find who they are as a person and find what they want to do in life, and I kind of already know that so it would be like I'd be taking a step back or something.

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

I don't have a career. I have a life.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

For most people, life would be boring without meaningful work.

My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.

In the end, I need to be fulfilled in my work - that's more important than the money.