Vocation quotes

“I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.”
Oprah Winfrey

“I came to America to become an architect.”
Mako

“- Tracy: There are plenty of other ways you can provide for this family.
- Ellison Oswalt: Doing what? Teaching? Editing journalism textbooks? Don't you understand that writing is what gives my life meaning? These books are my legacy!
- Tracy: I have always supported you doing what you love, Ellison. But writing isn't the meaning of your life....” (continue)(continue reading)
Juliet Rylance - Tracy
Ethan Hawke - Ellison Oswalt

“I feel I'm following my path. I'm living my truth, and my path is storytelling.”
Winston Duke

“He got a lot of shots he could choose from. Duffs and tops and skulls, but there's only one shot that's in perfect harmony with the field. One shot that's his authentic shot, and that shot is gonna choose him. There's a perfect shot out there tryin' to find each and every one of us. All we got to do is get ourselves out of its way to let it...” (continue)(continue reading)

“You lost your swing, we got to go find it. Now it’s somewhere in the harmony of all of this, all that was, all that will be.”

“Inside each and every one of us is our one, true, authentic swing. Something we was born with. Something that's ours and ours alone. Something that can't be learned, something that's got to be remembered.”

“I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.”
Sam Elliott

“About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.”
Ted Levine

“When you are a kid, everybody wants to be an actor.”
Brent Spiner

“- Pepper Potts: Tony, you know that I would help you with anything, but I cannot help you if you're going to start all this again.
- Tony Stark: There is nothing except this. There's no art opening, no charity, nothing to sign. There's the next mission, and nothing else.”
Gwyneth Paltrow - Pepper Potts
Robert Downey Jr. - Tony Stark

“- Mr. Kil: I'm Mr. Kil.
- James Bond: Now there's a name to die for.”
Lawrence Makoare - Mr. Kil
Pierce Brosnan - James Bond

“- Lawrence Selden: Isn't marriage your vocation? Isn't it what you're all brought up for?
- Lily Bart: You speak as if I should marry the first man who came along.”
Eric Stoltz - Lawrence Selden
Gillian Anderson - Lily Bart

I remember my father telling me: "The eyes of God are on us always.". The eyes of God. What a phrase to a young boy. What were God's eyes like? Unimaginably penetrating, intense eyes, I assumed. And I wonder if it was just a coincidence I made my specialty ophthalmology.
Martin Landau - Judah Rosenthal

“My parents had basically given up on children when I came along, so my mother always called me her 'gift from God'. That really stuck with me and when I was eight I told her I had a feeling I was supposed to return the favor. She was so happy she cried. My dad just wanted to know if working for God came with dental.”
Edward Norton - Father Brian Finn

“The feeling begins. Very tender, very loving. Then the pain starts. Claws slip underneath the skin and tear their way up. Just before they reach my eyes, they dig in. And I remember. First I fasted for three months. I even whipped myself before I went to sleep. At first it worked. Then the pain came back. And the voices. They call me by name....” (continue)(continue reading)
Willem Dafoe - Jesus

“- Ancestor: My children never caused such trouble. They all became acupuncturists.
- Ancestor: Well, we can't all be acupuncturists.
- Ancestor: No! Your great-granddaughter had to be a cross-dresser!”
Mary Kay Bergman - Ancestor
Corey Burton - Ancestor

“- Nun: The way you put it... I never really thought about it like that before. What have I been doing with my life? What am I...
- Loki: Yeah, I know. Listen, my advice to you: you take this money that you've been collecting for your parish, go get yourself a nice dress, you know? Fix yourself up. Find some man, find some woman, that you can...” (continue)(continue reading)

Betty Aberlin - Nun
Matt Damon - Loki