Erica Jong Quotes

There are enough roles for everyone, and I truly believe that the roles that we end up doing are the exact ones that are right for us at that time as people and as actors.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

You dream what you're supposed to do.

Each of us has our own destiny. Mine is to be an actor.

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

I had a calling to become what I became - I was created to do this.

I really knew with every fiber of my being that acting was - for lack of a better word - my calling.

I know what my dharma is: I'm supposed to be an actor.

When I started making music, I was like, 'This is something I can believe I was meant to do.'

Whatever your calling or purpose is, it's your job to feel it. No gift that you have been given was made for yourself.

I always felt like something bigger was waiting for me out there.

I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

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

When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.

For years and years I have done the work I was born for.

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

Sometimes you just know what you're placed on this earth to do.

There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting.

The guitar chose me.

I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.

The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.