Quotes About Passion

I watched 'Raiders Of The Lost Ark' about 90 times and knew every word.

Money has never been a consideration In my continuing to play for the Raiders.

I'll rail against what I think is wrong.

Comedians can't afford to get too comfortable; we need something to rail against.

Football has gone off the rails. It's lost its spirit.

I'm proud to be a railway modeler.

I'm proud to be a railway modeler. It means more to me to be on the cover of Model Railroader than to be on the cover of a music magazine.

Certain emotions just take you to the notes - being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes.

A big moment for me came when 'Singin' in the Rain' came out. It hit me like a sledgehammer - that's what I wanted to do.

I was born and raised on 'Singin' in the Rain.' It's in my work. It's in me.

For me, it's about making art that's not good but phenomenal. James Baldwin didn't want to just stay above the fray. Prince didn't think, 'I wonder what the industry is gonna think about 'Purple Rain.'' It's just, is this honest? Is this real? Does this move me? The rest is icing.

When I first got turned on to 'Purple Rain,' I was just moved by Prince's charisma and his just being free. Everything meant something, from the scream to falling on the ground to taking his shirt off. It just all meant something.

I saw Rain dance on TV and decided that I wanted to sing and dance like him.

Let's start the rainbow rage.

I really, really like 'In Rainbows.' But I also really like 'OK Computer' as a sort of flipside to that. 'Reckoner' is my favorite, just my favorite Radiohead song. That, 'Idioteque,' and 'Pyramid Song' are my top three.

That idea of not always being in control of the primitive parts of yourself - the bits that fall in love or the bits that dance or lose the plot or drink too much - and putting that across... that's pop for me. It's playing with all the different colours of the rainbow of life.

To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!

What passions cannot music raise or quell?

If I can raise attention to a cause, I will.

You don't have to raise millions of dollars to be successful, you just have to work on something you are passionate about.

I don't know whether everybody likes the films that I do. I know that I love them, and I believe the way that I raise my kids that they will love them, and that's what most important to me.

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

My dad was a diehard Cowboys fan. I was raised as a Cowboy fan, and I was forced to be a Cowboy fan.

I was raised with a lot of classical music. I loved ballet. I was a bun head for 10 years.