Jonathan Tucker Quotes

I'm just looking for projects I enjoy.

I think a person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. Work begins when you don't like what you're doing. There's a wise saying: make your hobby your source of income. Then there's no such thing as work, and there's no such thing as getting tired. That's been my own experience. I did just what I wanted to do. It takes a little courage at first, because who the hell wants you to do just what you want to do; they've all got lots of plans for you. But you can make it happen.

Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy.

When a man's earning his living doing things he doesn't like, he feels like a slave; when he's doing what he loves, he feels like a prince.

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.

I'm alive, happier than I've ever been, and I'm doing exactly what I want.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

I know conventional wisdom has always been to go to Europe, and I did that early on, and I tried it, but I realised pretty quickly if I wasn't playing, nothing else mattered - I wasn't going to be happy.

I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn't happy.

You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.

I am in the position where I don't have to work for the sake of working, so I'm very lucky, in a sense. So, I can always sit back and wait for a project that I respond to, that I want to do.

The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

If there's some triumphant end of the story, I guess in a roundabout way I've gotten what I wanted, which is the ability to do interesting things and the wealth to be free.

There's no pleasure in working if you don't do the things you want to do.

But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make.

I don't desire happiness. I think it's a myth, and I don't think it's... and it makes you complacent. I feel very satisfyingly uncomfortable. I have the freedom to feel uncomfortable in the way I want to, is maybe a way to put it.

I think I have almost everything I could ever want. I have my family, and I have a lot of love in my life.

I say always follow your passion, no matter what, because even if it's not the same financial success, it'll lead you to the money that'll make you the happiest.

I am sick to my stomach, just, all the time. The tools in my toolbox to address that are choosing jobs where I can be a full, complete person, where I have some agency and autonomy.

My job description? It is many things; it is a whole universe created around the things that I like.

As long as I can make the films I want to make in decent conditions, I am happy.

There's no point doing a job where you're uncomfortable or doing something you dislike.

I always felt more comfortable doing what I wanted to do. Because at the end of the day, I'll be happy.