Quotes About Passion

Uruguay is a small country but with a lot of football history. We've won so many things, and so the people are always expecting us to do good things.

My profession is very important but it's a small part of my life.

Boxing is a part of my life but it's only a small part.

Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in journalism for about five or six years and then I'd become a writer.

I had a small part in a storm-chasing movie, so I did some research into storm-chaser culture.

Contrary to what people believe, yes, basketball has been a big part of my life. But on the other hand, it's also been a small part.

I am not really attached to my films and work. The film industry is just a small part of my life.

I come from a small town in Ohio and was always into sports.

Boston is really a small town, and the pro sports here are almost like a college sport.

I want to thank the NBA and U.S.A. Basketball. Words can't describe my feeling. I was a small town kid from Hamburg, Arkansas, and you provided me a platform to live out my passion, the game of basketball, on the world's grandest stage.

I watch all sports in some shape or form. When you grow up in a small town, sports becomes a form of you.

Ballet is incestuous. This world is smaller than small.

I really loved making 'A Walk to Remember', so I'm not afraid of making smaller films. But for me, I just need to connect to the characters.

I think it's important to do smaller films because I think that's where a lot of new things are happening.

I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy.

But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression.

I do smaller films, I'm not getting big paydays. I feel like we're just kind of scraping together here.

It's quite different, the kind of love you get in a smaller club and the kind of love you get on a big proscenium stage. It's quite different. I like both of them, but I'm in love with the smaller, intimate club.

For me, it's all about smaller character-driven pieces, about finding a person that I connect with and that I'm interested in bringing to life.

People often want the big dramatic works, not the smaller quieter ones, but I don't worry about how it fits together anymore; I just have to do it. I feel compelled to make a work: it's like an itch I have to scratch, and once it's been scratched, it goes away.

Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing.

I want to be doing smart, fun, complex characters like most actors want to do.