Quotes About Passion

All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.

People still call me the eternal amateur. After all, professionals are supposed to be able to conduct everything. But I can't unless I feel some connection inside. Conducting is not an end in itself for me.

We're professionals, and we know we want to write.

When it's show time, no matter what, differences are put to the side, and we come together to put on the best show possible because we are all professionals. Our love and passion for what we do always override any issues.

There are lots of professions where your social following is key now. But chasing followers is strange to me. I'd rather focus on the work.

Mine is one of the most beautiful professions in fashion: making others happy with an idea... I am happy because I did the job I dreamt of as a child.

The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities.

I think I'm a writer, and it's my job. People in other professions are expected to do their jobs all the time. Why shouldn't I?

Cinema and cricket are two professions in this country that people have an opinion on.

And maybe some people do it too much, are too selfish and concentrated on chess. But I think that in all professions you can find a lot of people like that.

I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor.

I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.

I haven't always known I wanted to act. I wanted to be a farmer, an English professor, or an archaeologist.

God made me to be a sports player. He didn't make me to be a professor or any of that other crap.

Piano was my first instrument, but it wasn't the instrument that I showed the most proficiency on.

At first, I simply wanted to get a basic understanding of sign language, but as time went on, I really got the bug and wanted to become proficient so that I could make good use of my skills.

Flying, I continue to be involved with. I love flying, and I hope to keep doing it so long as I can pass my medicals and stay proficient.

I'm hoping that with the high profile that the Go-Go's are going to have over the next year, that if anybody is interested in what else I do, I'll have something I can say that I do.

We try to make games we want to make for the sake of making fun games and not necessarily to make a profit.

I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.

I think there's plenty of room for blogs that exist to pay the blogger, or blogs that exist to turn a profit. That's just not the kind of blog I'm writing, and I'm not the kind of blogger that could do that.

As music became more profitable in the 1990s, it seemed like it attracted a lot of people who were just interested in the financial aspect of it, which is depressing.

People who are passionate about Warby Parker are passionate about creating a company that can scale, be profitable, and do good in the world - without charging a premium for it.

Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of acting. I was more into making music, but going to school and learning about it every day, it made me grow profound respect for the art.