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.
Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it 'tap-dancing to work.'
Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
Basically, my work is play. It never actually feels that way - I'm always aiming to attain that state. But I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that's pretty cool.
Working at what you enjoy is far more important than what you're working at.
The majority of people consider their work a means to an end. People who work for money only come to the end faster than people who are involved in their life’s purpose every day.
I'm delighted with how my career unfolded.
I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.
It's not every day you get to do what you love and have a major story behind it.
I think work is the world's greatest fun.
...It's easier to find a way to make money at something you love than to learn to love a job that you can make money at.
The most successful people I know create superior results yet still maintain a balance among work, family, and recreation in their lives.
I am a storyteller, and the stories I tell are, when I'm lucky, really good ones. It's a very exciting thing to do with your life, and that's, I think, what keeps me hopeful.
I feel privileged to be able to do what I enjoy doing and that I also get paid to do it. That gives me great pleasure.
My mom said to me when I was a little kid, "You don't have to hate your job. Just because you see all these unhappy grown-ups doesn't mean you have to be one of them." She said, "Find something that you would do for free and find a way to get paid to do it." That's been my guiding principle.
I'm happier in my career now than I've ever been.
Success is having a career that you love with every fiber in your body.
Frankly, I think if I won the lottery and won a billion dollars, I'd still want to continue doing this job. I love expressing myself through it. I've gotten to really love acting. And I've gotten to know Big Bird from the inside out so thoroughly it's like playing my kid. I can't imagine deliberately stopping.
Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them.
I've had a great life. It was exciting. I worked with the most interesting people, and I traveled all over the country.
I love what I do, and I never thought about doing anything else. I think my voice was bestowed upon me; it was a gift I was given. I just had to learn to understand how to use it.
Learning to earn a living is only half the job. The other half is to make life worthwhile and meaningful.
I meet a lot of young people that want to go into acting because they think of what it will do for them. If that's the case, it can be a very, very painful profession. But if the kids want to do acting because they love it, and they want to give to it, then they can have a great life. It's really about as simple as how you look at it.
I've had a great career. I've had a great life. I am truly blessed by my working experiences.
Working in Isaac's universe was more of a treat than a challenge.
