Quotes About Passion

I have been acting since I was thirteen.

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.

I first picked up a guitar when I was ten years old; my parents surprised me with it for my tenth birthday. I started taking lessons when I was thirteen, but only for a few months, and then I just kept teaching myself.

I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.

I first got involved in soccer when I was three years old. And I played until I was sixteen, so for thirteen years, and I love it.

Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.

When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.

I always ran very fast and jumped very high but when I was about thirteen it was more of a choice between football and tennis, and I went for tennis.

I didn't even start dancing until I was in my thirties, and it was like flying.

I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.

I started in theatre when I was 13 or 14 years old and did a lot of theatre until my early thirties. Off-Broadway stuff - off-off-off-off-Broadway stuff - and I do love it.

And then writing, it was like I just found it, you know? Like you just found your favorite flavor of ice cream, all of a sudden there it is. 'This is what I should have been doing for the last thirty years. What was I thinking?' So I was, then I was in and then I had to just keep going with it.

I have never done anything but my very best work for anyone, and to do this and retain my first fine enthusiasm over a period of thirty years has required a rather special set of working conditions.

I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.

England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my disinheritance by absorbing the world of others... I loved them: George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens... I adopted them passionately.

Everybody has their role in the food world and what they choose to appreciate. I'm not a fine dining chef. I appreciate it. I think Thomas Keller is amazing. But I really like where I'm at; I like what I do. I like how it makes people feel.

Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.

I'm a huge Paul Thomas Anderson fan.

I first wrote a biography of Thomas Carlyle, and it turned out I loved writing biographies and had a talent for it. I believed I had a contribution to make.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

I love playing for the Thorns.

My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.

I'm a huge fan of Green Day's album 'American Idiot'; it was just a whole, very thorough experience.