Quotes About Passion

Bubbly roles and running around trees don't satiate an actor's quest for the best.

It's wrong to make a living off the theater. Theater should be supported, like redwood trees. You should make your living - whether you're a writer or an actor or a director - in movies or commercials. But you do theater out of love.

I love running around trees as much as a serious role.

It takes a certain kind of person who loves 'Star Trek' to bring it to life.

Star Trek is perhaps the best thing that ever happened to me, in a career sense.

Doesn't anybody ever want to talk about anything else besides 'Star Trek?' There were 79 episodes of the series; there were 55 different writers. I was only one of them.

My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franchise and a premise designed to stick people together that have to figure out what to do.

I am a nerd, but I don't dive head-first into any fiefdom of nerdiness, except for maybe 'Star Trek.'

I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.

I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is 'Star Trek.' They are by and large very imaginative, very intelligent people, and they certainly have been more than generous to me.

I think many actresses want to be famous and want to be the prettiest, and that wasn't my trek. I was thinking, 'I gotta get out of here... how do I get out of here?' I like acting, but I like directing more.

I love 'Star Trek: Voyager!'

I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic.

I'm still a 'Star Trek' fan. You never stop being one.

I'm a big 'Star Trek' fan.

Doing 'Star Trek,' I got to learn about it from the inside out. I got to learn what appealed to them, why sci-fi meant so much to people, why 'Star Trek' meant so much to people.

I'm not a great 'Star Trek' fan, but I love science fiction.

When I first played live, I would shake with fear, and my voice would tremble. But I do it for the love of it. There's nothing I love more than playing live.

The key to my perseverance was absolutely loving the craft of acting. I just figured that if I kept doing it, at the very least I would get better at acting. Even if I didn't become a tremendous success, as long as I knew I was improving and getting better, to me, that was success.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Munich is a spectacular city with fantastic flair and a tremendous passion for football.

But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability.

The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.