Zoe Kazan Quotes

I don't want to spend my life doing jobs that I don't care about.

This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being.

Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living.

I have a very clear picture of what I want to do and what I feel is important as far as my contribution or my appreciation and respect for this life that we're living, and to try to make it better. I can't feel that I'm making it better playing commercial music, and I never could, and I never will.

Neither of us are workaholics. I think the key thing is to accept that if you only exist through what you do, then you become what you do, and this is very wrong.

You should not confuse your career with your life.

You know when I think about what I'm doing - what I'm doing and the way I'm doing it is more important to me than any amount of money or anything like that because it's my artistic work.

The most important lesson I've learned is how rich and rewarding life is when one can engage in meaningful work, whether on the job or outside of work.

I never see myself as the famous person. It never was a part of my life, and I hope this doesn't become the most eminent thing about what I do. I just hope that I'll do things that have meaning for me and for others somehow.

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 really enjoy my time off. If I'm going to go to work, it has to be something I really believe in, or else it's totally tedious.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

I felt that I shouldn't be an actor who just makes movie after movie in a quest for prestige and money.

If you can build your career around your passions, then you're winning in life; that's one of the best things you can ask for.

Everything I've done has been personally fun, important, and meaningful to me.

When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers - and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.

What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again.

For most people, life would be boring without meaningful work.

Personally, I've never done things just for money.

Work is a salvation. Work is how you connect with who you are, no matter how painful it might be.

I know, ultimately, I want to help effect change; otherwise, I would look at myself in the mirror every day and think, 'What in the world am I doing with my life?'

My career had zero to do with whether or not my husband also worked. It had everything to do with personal identity, personal goals, and making the most of my life.

More than anything, I just think about what roles I take on and make sure that it's really something that I feel passionate about if I'm going to leave home and go work.

My life goal is to find a nice balance between working for money and working for fulfillment.

Why would you spend your life and your time doing something that's insignificant?