Quotes About Passion

My life was really focused on futbol, but as those things happen in life, my passion for music won over my passion for futbol. But I love what I do. I don't regret it.

Sometimes in a derby it is not always easy to see a very good game with big quality but the power of one derby means you can see good things happen after one result.

I don't put myself into the category of 'rock star writing his biography.' That's because we live our lives by falling into experiences. Things happen to us. Something you do takes hold of you, and then you do a lot of it.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Think big; think disruptive. Execute with full passion.

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.

I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.

What inspires me? I am so inspired every day. I am inspired by thinkers. I am inspired by rebellion. I am inspired by children. I have been inspired by love.

I don't want to be an athlete so much. I groove more with artists and deep thinkers.

I have never imagined doing anything other than football, but now, thinking about it coldly, if I hadn't been a footballer, I would have been a musician.

All my life I'd woken up to tennis, tennis, tennis. Even if I don't go to practise, I'm thinking about it all day.

Take 'Jack and Diane.' I was so disgusted with people thinking the line 'Hold on to sixteen as long as you can' meant to stay a teenager forever. What I meant was keep doing whatever makes you feel alive.

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.

If you're going to be sexy in a photo, you'd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy.

I don't have the time to think about what someone else thinks of me because I'm busy making films.

When Steven Spielberg thinks you're the one, then I'll do anything. If you want me to put a dead horse on my head, I'll do it.

My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.

Vidhu Vinod Chopra is the only man I see around who makes films because he thinks 'this is a story that needs to be told, so let's tell it.'

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.

Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do.

I just feel like everyone and their mother thinks they can be an artist. You can't. Sorry. I know I was born to be one.

To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left.