Quotes About Passion

The kiss always gets a hell of a reaction.

I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.

I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.

One day, I just got up to read a poem and started singing. I looked around - the reaction was great. And I said, 'Oh, boy. I like this.'

You finish a project and start looking for something that might interest you. A lot of the films I've made are a reaction to something I've done right before.

'This Means War' is up there with 'Hail to the King' in terms of crowd reaction and kids chanting for it.

I just hope people enjoy 'Phase' as much as I've enjoyed making it. I hope it's a good reaction.

Going to directing wasn't a reaction away from acting as much as it was a move towards something I always wanted to do. Ever since I was a kid, I was interested in the camera and how it worked and why one director would place it in this part of the room and then another would place it in that part of the room.

If something evokes a strong emotional reaction in me, I need to push myself in that direction.

That's the extraordinary thing about opera: it has the power to elicit a physical reaction. I don't know if I'd have been any good or not, but I do know that I was never committed enough to find out.

The fact is I don't drive just to get from A to B. I enjoy feeling the car's reactions, becoming part of it.

Music can inspire immediate emotional reactions, even if the only person who hears it is the person creating it.

I don't think you can write from a reactive place. I think you just write the thing you want to write about, and if other people are writing about it, that doesn't really come to bear on what you want to do.

I'm not a nerd, don't plan to be a nerd and read books - which I can't do at all.

I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.

I love to read, and I love Martina Cole.

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

If after you read something, you connect with it, you want to do it.

I have no particular reader in mind, but a passionate desire to tell an honest, moving story.

If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more than two hundred years of know-how and knack, of creativity.

I'm a comic reader and a manga fan.

The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.

I'm an avid biography reader.