Peter Kay Quotes

I'm one hundred percent into my life, and into my fighting career. This is who I want to be in the future - as a mother - and if I'm going to leave the sport, I leave the sport. When I finish with fighting, I'm done.

One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I'm interested in? Is it something I enjoy?

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is.

If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

Work takes on new meaning when you feel you are pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it's just a job, and life is too short for that.

You've got to do what's best for you and what you want to accomplish in your career.

You have to know what you want out of your work or out of your life.

I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

I've spent my life following my passion.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.

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 want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

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.

If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.

My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.

You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.

I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.

I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.

My life and career is my own adventure.