Quotes About Passion

TV was my life, growing up. I ran home from school to watch television, and even did my homework with the TV on - my mom had a rule that as long as my grades didn't fall, I was allowed to. So it was my dream to work in television.

I have always been someone who wants to get it right. That started when I ran for school board. It's an avocation that's become a full-time job.

We were in New York, and we were performing at a morning show. This fan literally ran from that studio in the middle of New York City to our airport, which was very far away. That fan ran all the way there to see us, and we were so in awe of that guy.

I thought I was going to be a professor; then I ran screaming from there into magazine journalism.

I always knew that I wanted to be an actor. I made my debut on stage when I was 12, and I was sure that this is what made me happy. However, nobody takes a 12-year-old's career choice seriously. Everybody laughed it off. I also ran away from it, but acting eventually found me.

When I ran track, I couldn't see myself doing anything other than running track. Now I'm in wrestling, and I can't see myself doing anything other than wrestling, because I've completely fallen in love with what I do in this business.

I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.

Well, it's a little odd, the path I took, because when I was young, I wanted to be a cattle rancher. That was what I knew and that was what I liked.

I didn't want to play a rancher. I didn't want to have a cowboy hat on; I wanted to get away from that in the things I do. But I read the script and fell in love with it. As hard as I tried to say no, I couldn't.

This is random, but I thought I was going to have the biggest Backstreet Boys fansite. I'm not even gonna lie: I thought I was gonna marry one of the Backstreet Boys, and I was gonna be his Yoko Ono.

Great musicians, you don't just hear them, you feel them. When I listen to Randy Rhoads, I feel every note. I learned a lot from him.

I love 'Macho Man' Randy Savage, Shawn Michaels and Eddie Guerrero.

My inspirations were 'Macho Man' Randy Savage and Andre the Giant. It was easy to understand their character.

I drive a Range Rover almost every day, but my favorite is my '69 SS Camaro.

I have a broad range of interests, so I'll always be working on something.

If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work.

My grandpa was the one; he started taking up golf when I was about two and introduced me to the game as far as just taking me to the driving range where I grew up playing. That was really all he had to do was let me hit a golf ball and kind of fell in love with it from there. He didn't really have to teach me a whole lot or anything.

I feel that all girls like clothes and I'm more of a creative person. If it's writing the album or developing the makeup range, it's just about being creative. That for me is where I am happiest.

I'm JaVale McGee, the basketball player, funny guy, whatever, whatever. But I'm just really passionate about music and I don't want people to look at it like 'Oh he's just doing it to get famous.' I'm already pretty famous as is, so I'm not really trying to do it for the money.

I'm a funny person, but I take my music seriously.

I don't write on set. I also - in a funny way, I don't really differentiate between the writing and directing. I think it's all sort of the same thing.

I am furious about everything.

Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing.

I just broke up all the furniture in the house. My mother had to get rid of me. So she put me in dance class.