Amanda Bynes Quotes

I was a very happy banker, but I feel happier as an author.

I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting.

As soon as I got my proper first job, I never did acting again. I think the last thing I did was a Mike Figures film, and then I got a series with the BBC. I'm glad of the experience, because I think it's very, very good to understand what actors go through.

As an actor, you act in order to make a living. Then, when you can make a living, you start acting because you want to do what you love to do. I need to remind myself of that a lot.

Sometimes I wonder if I would've been more successful if I wasn't acting and I concentrated on other things. But I love being on set. I love working with my 100 crew members.

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've sort of become the poster boy for quitting your job and following your dreams.

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

My mom always told me if I love what I'm doing, and I'm having fun, then just continue to do it. But if it's not fun for me anymore, and I'm miserable, then I'm going to go back to Texas and quit it all, to be honest.

I do what I love every day.

I've done what I've always wanted to do. But as one Senator said, just because you're doing what you've always wanted to do, it doesn't mean you have to do it forever. And it's very taxing in terms of the travel, the running around.

By pursuing the things you love, all the other things in life will fall into order.

There is work, and there is pleasure; acting is pleasure.

If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.

The ultimate dream in life is to be able to do what you love and learn something from it.

It's just too much if you make your career everything. It is everything when you're doing it. But you have to find things you love just as much.

Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.

Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part and then another. It gets more challenging as you get older, and it's not just having a daughter, it's wanting to have your own life and be yourself.

If you're following your dreams, you're doing something you love and that you believe in yourself for.

Thank God, I have the opportunity to do what I love, which is my family and work on a business and try and make it the best that it can be.

I'd like to think there'll be too much of real life going on for me to want to do much acting.

The day the producers aren't minting money, or the fans are done with me and, most of all, I as a person get bored of acting, I will stop and pursue my other interests. There is a lot to do: painting, writing, direction.

I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting.

I didn't get rich and famous, but I do what I love.

I realized that, after tasting entrepreneurship, I had become unfit for the corporate world. There was no turning back. The only regret I had was having wasted my life in the corporate world for so long.