Quotes About Passion

Capra's great passion was Dickens. As soon as he had some money, he bought some of the rarest and most extraordinary editions of Dickens's work, and he was very proud of his collection.

I'm a huge fan of Rascal Flatts and a huge fan of Kelsea Ballerini, too.

I'm a studio rat. I like going in there as producer.

I'm a competitive person. I love the game of basketball. I'm a gym rat.

I just realized at a certain point that no matter how much writing I did, I'm still a gym rat for comedy clubs.

I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.

I always loved Test cricket, and I rate it very highly.

I don't know where I'm rated. I don't pay attention to that. I'm really so just all into my craft. It's not a contest. I try to play the best.

Write what you really care about. Write what you want to say because that is the experience that always rates as genuine on the page.

I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.

I like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.

I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.

I do love horses, but I'd rather be on motorcycles.

I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with overexcited poets rather than pampered painters.

I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist.

For me, I never take a job thinking it's going to grab ratings or that it's even going to be a success. I don't. I just take the job because I love the character. Or I love the script. Maybe I love the director. But whatever I do, I never think about how it will do. That is not in my hands.

I don't pick up a project based on its success ratio. If it instinctively hooks me, then it hooks me.

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

We intellectualize it, and we rationalize it, but it's really about a love of movies, and I think whether you're making an art film or you're making a genre film, if you don't really love that movie you are trying to make, you'll be able to tell.

I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.

Acting is probably what I'm best at, but there are certain stories kind of rattling around in my head that I like the idea of developing over time.

Who loves, raves.

I was big into hip-hop as a kid, and when I was eighteen, I got into dance and rave music, which was popular in Ireland at the time.

I started as a rave promoter when I was 17 years old; then I started DJing at 19.