Gil Gerard Quotes

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

I had fame and wealth and things that are supposed to make you happy, but I wasn't happy, because there's no importance on having a fulfilling life. So in my mid-40s, that was my pursuit - making films that interested me, films that I would like to go see.

I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully.

If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.

Making films has never just been a job to me; it is my life. I have some interests outside of acting - I sing and I've written books, for instance - but acting is what keeps me going: it's what I do; it gives life purpose.

The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.

I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.

I would like my kids to follow their bliss.

I think the only reason I wanted to do modeling, really, was because I knew I wasn't ready to act; I knew I didn't have enough life experience, and I knew that doing photo shoots was a way of acting. Playing a character each shoot and being able to just emerge yourself in these awkward experiences - it was amazing.

My goal is to play characters that I feel I can contribute to and also ones I can contribute back to my life.

The reason of my life is not to be the most beautiful woman in the world.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

You only have one life and if you're not doing what you love, what's the point?

When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.

If you do the things you enjoy and are good at, I really have a feeling that that will lead to having a fulfilling life, and people with fulfilling lives are able to be 'good people.'

When I uploaded my very first video, I was just looking for something to make me happy. I was confused about what I was doing in my life and had earned a degree that I didn't really enjoy. With that video, I was finally doing something I was passionate about. So it was my way of self-medicating.

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

My father's only advice is to 'do what makes you happy,' and I follow it religiously.

If you don't wake up and have your own thing, whether it's writing or reading or traveling or acting or dancing or singing or being a mother or a father, something that drives you, then it's all worth nothing. One of the key elements in happiness is purpose.

Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.

It isn’t happiness I am concerned with but experience.

I love my life, because I’ve seen my purpose.

The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.

A productive purpose to which you give yourself fully and joyfully is one of the great adventures of life. It is a uniquely human source of happiness.