Aidan Quinn Quotes

When you have a job you know you'd do for free, it takes a lot of the pressure away to be successful at it. So if it's doing theater in New York or teaching acting, I'm down for all of it.

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.

Once I found acting and found that I could get away with it and make a living out of it, I was thrilled.

My life may be a pretty crazy life at times, but it's a very privileged one - being able to earn a good living doing what you love. Not many people have such an opportunity.

Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it's just about projects that turn me on.

What career? A man's got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it because I think I can do a good job of something and I'll enjoy it, do it, and sort of vanish. I don't want to be an actor for hire.

I have a teaching job that allows me to pay the rent and affords me to, frankly, write the books I want to write.

Choosing my career was always based on job satisfaction rather than financial security. I wanted to get a job in science; I enjoyed being a surgeon and I now enjoy being an academic and having a media career.

I think as long as acting feels fulfilling and continues to feel fulfilling, it's worth it to me.

I'm thrilled I can make a living doing something I enjoy.

Everybody should get to make a living with their passion.

I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.

I want to read books and go for walks and make dinner. I guess there are people who love working and that's great. I'm not one of them. I love tackling roles and I love theater, but filming, I don't get it. It seems mind-numbing to me.

I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel.

A job should bring enough for a worker and family to live on, but after that, self-realization, the exercise of one's gifts and talents, is what truly matters.

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

If I can make a living as a writer, I can do anything.

I don't just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don't get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to be doing it and working with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways.

There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me.

Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.

I don't have to work just to work anymore. More interesting parts come my way, so I can afford to say, 'I don't want to make that.'

Work is both my living and my pleasure.

Career-wise, I feel very lucky to have always been able to follow my creative path.