Quotes About Passion

Getting onto 'Jeopardy!' was a pet project my whole life, so it was something I was willing to work really hard on.

I've wanted to do a Sammy Davis Jr. story for a long time. It's one of those pet projects that has to be done.

I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was 'Peter Pan.'

Peter Som is one of my favorite designers. I love his clothes so much.

I'm not one of those people who had a burning passion for 'Peter Pan' all my life. Although I can't remember a time when I didn't know the story, I didn't carry around with me an ambition to one day write the sequel.

The kind of filmmaking excitement that director Peter Weir brings to movies is bone deep.

I no longer enjoy drawing people's pets. I just want to draw what I want to draw and have people not tell me what to draw.

My big ambition was to be Richard Petty.

I originally wanted to go into sports, but my first concert was KISS at the shooting of 'KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park.' The minute I saw Gene and Paul... it was all over. I knew that's what I wanted to do.

'The Phantom of the Opera' is about love. It's as simple as that.

You can't tell the story of a 13-year-old boy who knows every lyric to 'Phantom of the Opera' without also referencing how much teasing he gets at school.

I used to know all the lyrics to all the songs from 'The Phantom of the Opera.'

Nothing will ever be as big as 'The Phantom of the Opera' for me.

I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I thought I might follow in the medical footsteps of my parents: my father was a doctor, my mother a pharmacist.

It's not about, 'Let me play as long as I can so I don't have to grow up.' It's about, 'Let me play as long as I enjoy it,' and when it's time to step away, I can step away gracefully even if I'm still good enough to keep playing, because I'm ready for that next phase.

I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.

It is very important for an artiste to be excited about her work in every phase of her career. If a tiredness seeps into one's attitude, it will show in the quality of one's work.

There was a phase when I and people around me listened to Prince a lot. A lot. We took Prince fandom to the extreme.

There was a phase where nothing was going right, and the thought crossed my mind that what is going to happen. Since I had no Plan B, I was sure from the beginning that I love acting and this is what I want to do for the rest of my life, so I had to be ready to struggle.

I am a product of '90s movies. I grew up watching '90s films and wanted to become an actor because that was the phase of cinema I enjoyed.

I love hip-hop. I have gone through many difference phases in my love affair with hip-hop.

I go through phases where I'm not into jazz as much, and then I'll get heavy, heavy, heavy into it.

Whatever subject I choose, I do a PhD in it.

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.