Quotes About Passion

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.

I want to do music the rest of my life.

I just hate to lose. When I am on the court, it is like my life depends on it.

I felt, if I never did anything in my life but read scripts and synopsize them, I would be happy.

Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life.

I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won't die with my music still in me.

My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.

I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.

If you're gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy.

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

I mean, I grew up riding. I can't ever remember not being able to ride or rope and all that stuff. It was part of my life growing up, so it was fun for me.

Something has to matter. Otherwise, a person's life will be miserable and empty.

The pursuit of meaning, not happiness, is what makes life worthwhile.

Chess is most certainly not my life.

Life is found in the dance between your deepest desire and your greatest fear.

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.

It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it.

You get to decide what to worship.

Just 'cause there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there's not a fire inside.

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.