You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.
You can only make money doing what you love.
It was a difficult decision to say no twice to Barcelona. It was never a secret that I have admired them since I was a kid and that I always wished I could play for Barcelona. But life is made of hard decisions that sometimes go against what you dream of.
I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow.
There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.
Don't die old, die empty. That's the goal of life. Go to the cemetery and disappoint the graveyard.
What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
Don't die with your music still in you. Don't die with your purpose unfulfilled. Don't die feeling as if your life has been wrong. Don't let that happen to you.
You will not find the treasure of your Personal Legend unless you want to live that Legend.
You have to believe that it is what you want to do with your life and you have to be dedicated to it.
I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.
Choosing an unconventional career path - I am not a traditional Egyptologist by any means. I found what I love, and I have stuck with it.
From a very young age, I wanted to be an actor, but I lived in a very small town in Florida where there weren't any opportunities for that.
You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.
If you do what you love, hold nothing back, and never let fear of failure get in your way, then you've pretty much figured out the Trump formula.
You have to learn to fight for things, to bear the burden and have a life which does not in any way correspond to other peoples' lives.
I'm not interested in doing 'Star Wars.' It's an amazing movie, but that's not my gift. I tell the stories that I tell that relate to the people who love what I do. That is the place and the path that I know I am supposed to be on. The minute I try and go do something else, it will be amazing to watch how quickly that don't work.
You have to make your own destiny.
As a woman, you do have a sense that if you can do other things, then you should. If you feel, mmm, the roles are getting a little repetitive, and you know you can write, then you should write a different role.
Living the dream is simply a form of living out your passion, of making that passion gradually, through persistence and effort, a central part of your life.
Success comes when you do what you love to do, and commit to being the best in your field.
Entrepreneurs: See yourself as victorious- and the best way to be victorious is to be passionate. Find something you love doing!
To any young women out there who might be thinking about taking up darts, I would just say, 'Go for it.'
Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.
