Quotes About Passion

Flying has been such an important part of my professional life and I love to do it.

Everything has changed in my professional life; I get to live every dream - and more - that I ever wanted as a little girl, and as a teenager.

I actually started trying to be a professional writer with novels, and I wrote two that exist and are around... kind of. But they never really went anyplace in particular. I still like them both. What it showed me was that you can spend years on a novel, and then it could just be, like, OK, you spent that time and that's that.

I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play.

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

My conviction is that a full professional also wants to live professionally.

I've been doing both music and acting since I was pretty little. Just for fun. Being able to peruse both professionally is the greatest thing in the whole world.

I always played hockey, I was always a hockey fan, but I was never bitten by the hockey bug... I never looked into playing it professionally.

I play a kids' game professionally and I love it.

I've been playing music professionally, full time since 1980 when I graduated college at the age of 22.

There's this thing where Asian parents force you to play an instrument at an early age, but god forbid you like it and want to pursue it professionally! But, as a kid, I never did choir, and didn't sing.

Professionally, I like doing one thing at a time and enjoy directing the most.

I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally.

Already in go-karts, I said, 'OK, that's what I really want to do professionally as a career, as a job.'

I've acted professionally since I was 16.

I mean, I've acted professionally since I was 16.

I had been writing professionally since 1988.

I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.

Music will always be my No. 1 passion, but I don't have to be doing it professionally. It's not really about that for me anymore. I feel like I don't have to look at it as a career. I can just rest in it and just be.

I've been acting since I was six years old, but not professionally.

I had always been interested in screenwriting, ever since I could write things down as a child. Obviously, I started as an actor, professionally, but screenwriting was always something that I had a great interest in.

I left rock and roll professionally at about 49. That's too long as far as I'm concerned. Some people can do it; it depends on what you were.

Professionally, I want to keep playing music; I can't escape that.

I decided to start professionally making music at about 11. I was like, 'Okay, this is something I really want to do.'