Quotes About Passion

Football brings you lots of lovely things, but then you have to realise that it's actually a job.

Because I didn't go to drama school, I didn't start in the business with any toolbox apart from enthusiasm and instinct. I'd throw everything at a part and sometimes realise that I had hit my limits.

I've grown up with a piano in the house, and that's where I started to be able to learn things by ear. Guitar kind of happened, and I was using it just for writing at first. Then, I was writing so much that I began to realise that I knew how to play, and that's when I started getting nerdy about it.

Show me an actor who doesn't want to be famous, and I'll show you a liar. Later, you realise that there's more to it than just the acquisition of fame, and money and girls. But that is what drives them and was what drove me, initially.

I won't say there's disrespect for the Indian home cook, but I was never exposed to that. Even in a semi-urban Indian family, you will find a maid. And once you meet these people, you realise they cook purely out of passion or love for the family.

The great thing about the NFL is that you get into it for love, and you realise it is a fabulous business.

Doing something that empowers people makes you realise how boring it would be to work for a place where the goal is just to make more money. It's much easier to get out of bed and look forward to 12 hours of work if you're making the world a better place.

I'm grown up enough to realise how to play cricket. I love the game.

I realise that film industry is a brittle and fragile world, but I'm ready to face it all because I'm too much in love with this space.

I did not realise just how passionate sci-fi fans are about their material.

I thought all good art is you doing exactly what you want to see. I didn't realise that's not even what I really like about art. Bands I liked weren't doing just what they want to do: they were finding their common ground with them and me.

Acting made me realise this is me; this is what I always wanted to be. Even today, I am an awkward kid, and I feel most comfortable when I become a character before the camera.

The actual teaching itself becomes lost in a sea of paperwork and teachers soon realise that the very reason they entered this profession constitutes only a fraction of their working day.

Sometimes when you come every day to training you can't realise how big it is to be a footballer.

When I read about Joyce, I realised that there was no eight-till-one in his life: it was 24 hours a day for him.

I was able to go on stage and work until it felt right or felt good. It meant that I very quickly realised that it was the job for me.

I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.

When I was going through school, I joined the Lyceum Youth Theatre, and that kind of cemented it. Through being in and around the building and watching shows, I realised that there was something I really loved about it, so I went into the stage management side.

I have been a good theatre artiste since my school and college days, but when I participated in 'Cine Stars Ki Khoj,' I realised that I could touch people's hearts when I performed.

One fine day, I realised that advertising was not my calling. I closed shop and plunged into theatre.

Through the years, I have realised that when you have had fun playing a role, it comes across on screen.

Life being so short, and the possible books to write so many, it's good to function by night as well as by day; but would anybody become a writer if they realised at the outset what the working hours were?

By the time I finished my first three films, I realised this is something I want to do for a long time, learn, and grow in.

I was working so hard at music and trying to do this whole 'industry' thing and realised that it wasn't for me.