Quotes About Passion

I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian.

I can sing, but it isn't something I crave to do professionally.

When I work, I work very hard. When I don't work, I have to do something where my endeavor can totally take me off what I do professionally, like sailing. It takes all your attention.

I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.

I wouldn't even go spend the night at a friend's unless they had a piano. But I didn't have the chops, the extraordinary talent, to be able to play the piano professionally.

I have been giving live performances since childhood, and I continue to do so professionally.

I'd like to think that even if I wasn't acting professionally, I would still be doing it for free. It helps me get through the day.

People who are artists professionally are not artists because they want to be artists; they have to be artists. They're compelled to get that creativity out and to share that with others.

It is completely a God thing that I am here today because for the first 17 years of my life, I never thought I would ever do music professionally. I'd always liked what my dad did, but I never thought that I wanted to do it, just to be different.

If I wasn't going to be able to dance professionally, I wasn't going to dance. That's my all-or nothing personality coming out.

My first show in high school was 'The Music Man.' I was a junior. I played Harold Hill. I did the role at the University of Miami, too. I do love that musical. To do it in high school and college and then to do it professionally - I mean, come on!

I was in high school, and I was the guy that always got cast in the school play. Theater is huge in high school in Minnesota, and I knew that I was very good at that, and gifted, and I was 'the guy,' but it still wasn't something I ever thought of as 'a job' or something that one could do professionally.

I knew I wanted to write professionally and get paid.

The good thing about being a writer is that you don't need anything except for a laptop. You can really do your own work, and if you're not manically compelled to write all the time before you do it professionally, it's probably not a business for you, anyway.

The way I learnt to play was to go out there and enjoy myself. I never thought I'd play professionally.

I knew in my heart I wanted to do musical theater professionally. I just didn't know how to go about it or how to communicate that to my parents.

I've been an actor all of my life, but not professionally.

I used to draw cars when I was growing up. I wanted to be a car designer. I've never been professionally taught. It's something that comes and goes.

I used to dance professionally in Delhi.

I am not professionally trained as an actor.

I started to sing professionally when I was about 13 or 14.

I made a decision a few years back to never again do anything professionally that I didn't want to do.

I definitely want to bake professionally, but as a home baker I am going to need training.

I'm a big fan of live music and going to gigs, but I'll leave it to the professionals.