Quotes About Passion

There are different reasons to make movies.

Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.

Money and fame, it only makes you so happy. You gotta find other reasons to fight. I want a certain amount of money to do the things that I want to do.

We have our own reasons for what's motivating us right now.

I still feel like I'm doing this for the same reasons and working just as hard.

Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things.

The three things I said when I came out of school were I want to work consistently, I want to do good work and I want to be paid fairly, and that's happened. But I didn't become an actress for the money. I do it for other reasons.

The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons.

Hollywood used to be run by artists and people who loved artists... people who wanted to make movies for all the right reasons. For the love. The Art. To tell stories. Yes to make money as well, but it was about both. Now I feel, it's mostly about bottom line and making money.

I don't know one actor that became an actor for healthy reasons.

I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited for anything else. And I for one am much too lazy.

I'm definitely not the type to have a sing-off. I'm not catty like that. I sing for the right reasons.

I'm a real rebel with a cause.

'Rebel' is not a word I would describe for myself, but I feel like I was a total rebel being an actor. It made me feel like there was something in me, a passion, a love - and that I didn't just squelch it.

I remember running down the hallway screaming 'We're Not Gonna Take It.' It was really one of those childhood anthems that really stirred you up and made you want to rebel.

I've always considered myself something of a musical rebel.

My fans like the rebel in me.

I was a rebel and I wanted to do something that nobody else did, and nobody else played the cello. Also, I was also a small kid and I liked the fact that it was big.

I wanted to be a rebel so badly.

Things that make me angry and sad, I cannot hide. It's not because I want to be a rebel; it's my instinct. When something touches me deeply, I really have to react.

We need punk now; we need it more than ever. We need rebellion by youth.

As a kid, I always so enthralled and excited by rebellion.