Quotes About Passion

I think I only went to college because it was close to the karate school.

Elvis was a seventh-degree black belt in karate. My dad knew that he couldn't dance like Elvis or sing like him, but he thought maybe he could try karate, and he fell in love with it.

I used to do karate, but then as acting and school got a little more hectic, I stopped.

There's a lot of work that goes into it - if you think about how many collections a year that Karl Lagerfeld has to do, with Chanel and all the other things he does - you can't do that unless you are working 18 hours a day. It's really a lot of hard, hard work.

Karl Lagerfeld is the hardest-working man in showbiz!

Dancing with Kate Beckinsale made me very excited.

Kate Bush is a huge inspiration for me.

I covered Katrina, I've covered the tsunamis, all of them, the Haiti earthquake... you get to a certain point in your career where you say, 'I want to now cover what I want to cover.'

The day I stop making music would be the day I keel over, really.

And I think he's been very keen to do that.

I am keen to work in romantic stories and dramas.

Lots of other drivers like cycling, but I'm not so keen. I have some really cool bikes, but I'm just not in love with it like Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso.

I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.

I'm not keen on cars and motorbikes. I tried to be a biker, but it wasn't me - I bought a Harley-Davidson and dumped it.

I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.

I've been accused of being a bit too keen on my football, not least by my three ex-wives.

I was enjoying my football, even though it wasn't really going well. That's when I said to my dad, who as a New Zealander was very keen on me playing cricket, that I would choose football.

My mother was very keen I learn dance and I learnt so many forms.

It was during the gap between 12th class and college, that I realized my passion for music, although I did have a keen ear for it all along and also wanted to be a musician.

I'm keen to go back to Hindi films, both as an actor and even better, as a director.

As an actor, what matters to me is to keep doing good work.

You have to have a part of you like that as a bowler - that fire in you to keep going.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing.