Quotes About Passion

If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology.

I'm really into psychology, and I want to be a psych major.

We treated 'Psychosis' like a labor of love from the beginning, from the selection of riffs - I spent like a month just doing riffs for the record.

I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer.

If I didn't work at ESPN, which I didn't until 2014, I would still be watching a psychotic amount of football for someone that doesn't do this for a living. I hope that never changes.

You'd be playing in a pub in the afternoon. Then late at night, you'd be playing a club. You got into that habit: 'If we don't play, we don't eat.'

Actually, the reason I'm a huge Arsenal fan is because when my dad moved over from Sri Lanka, he lived in north London and fell in love with Arsenal. Then he moved to East Grinstead and bought a pub, which he turned into an Arsenal pub.

Rock n' roll! It's the music of puberty.

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by the public at large.

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

As a public figure, I'm always interested in being part of brands that I actually enjoy. So, I would never do something with somebody I don't believe in, a product I don't believe in. There are so many products out there that I love that I'd chomp at the bit to be a part of their campaign.

Public health is hard. Nobody goes into it for the money or the acclaim. People work many long hours.

When you want to know something about the character of somebody in public life, look to see if they have a passion that began long before they were in office and that they have consistently held it throughout their career.

I spent a few years after college as a Boston public school teacher and I loved it. But I was never committed to it, committed to it as a career.

I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.

I went to public school, and I didn't do well in school. And it wasn't until, actually, I got into school at Juilliard - it was the first time in my life that I thought, 'Oh, maybe I'm not stupid,' because I was so inspired and passionate about what I was learning, and it was the first time in my life I had felt that.

Passion helps you in protecting the community, and public service will follow it. That has been my career. It is the passion that drives me to do what I do every day.

Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.

Public service and community organizing and movement building is such a part of my DNA that it's really hard to separate it.

I did cartoons for four high school publications and then and there decided I wanted to spend my life at the drawing board.

I spent a whole 12 years helping other people tell their stories as a publicist, so just to be able to go and write and get behind the camera, that's my thing.

I started publicly singing when I was eight. Singing was always what I did. I never really acted.

A lot of the stories I got on A.I., I can't say publicly. Overall, I just really appreciated how he went about going into games. He got a lot of flak for the 'practice' comment, but every game, he gave it his all.