Quotes About Passion

I always find it fascinating to ask people, why they've chosen to live their life as an artist? Why be an actor, a singer, an author, a filmmaker? I've heard such inspiring answers to that question.

I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity.

TV and film has defined my entire life.

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.

I'll never retire as long as I live—that's like retiring from life! I'll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you're in good health, living is exciting on its own.

I've been dancing all my life, but I never did it seriously.

It's what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and write and create and along the way discover what it is that I'm about.

Football is my life. I guess I can't live without it.

When I'm on a roll nothing makes me happier or feel more satisfied, like plugging in, life makes sense.

To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean - that's scary to me. It was essential to at least try surfing again and get out there and see how it went.

I like it when I'm on the stage, but honestly, I would be very happy if I could cut it off, just enjoy my life when I wasn't performing.

I can not imagine my life if I didn't have a music program in my school.

You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.

If someone asked for advice on being an actor I'd say "Don't. It's a hard life." And if they walked away I'd be happy to have spared them years of misery.

I'm a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead.

I couldn't imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.

Have a great passion in everything you do and it will be the most fun and rewarding life you can have.

I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.

I know I'm always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That's for sure. It's about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.

We don't make music for people to take drugs to, we make music for people to live their life.

I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.

I have a really full life, both within music and outside it.

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.