Quotes About Passion

Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh.

Auditioning is like boxing: It keeps me hungry and intense, whether I get the part or not.

Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It... keeps us honest.

I just want to do more work. Every time I step in front of a camera I feel young again. I really do. It keeps your mind active and it keeps you going.

Fighting injustice keeps you young.

Directing is definitely something that is in my life for keeps, and the more I do it, the more I realize how much I want to learn and how much I have to give. And it kind of bolsters my acting - it enhances it in a really wonderful way that I wasn't expecting.

Golf is hugely important, as it keeps me going.

I want to play Keith Richards.

I went to anything that was on at the Lyceum in Edinburgh. I was quite geeky. There was a production of 'Look Back in Anger' with David Tennant and Kelly Reilly in it, and it blew me away. I still think about it and look back on it as the moment where I decided, 'I want to do that.'

Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.

I'm a big R&B guy. I'm a huge R. Kelly fan.

I know that from my own experience, after I had my daughter Kelly, I felt great. I just wanted to get back on that court.

I was always a big Ken Griffey Jr. fan growing up.

I always wanted to play with people's hair. I was really into 'The Golden Girls' and how big their hair was. I always had Barbies and Ken dolls, whose hair I wanted to play with and was always styling. I was very lucky - I never had to wonder what I was passionate about. I've always known that I'm really, really passionate about grooming.

Kenny Loggins pours his heart and soul into the music he makes. He'll take you with him through everything he's going through, which is not easy.

I dreamed of having a Gibson. I had a cheap Kent - you know, a Japanese guitar - and then a Kanora, a Japanese guitar. I borrowed a friend's Harmony for years. To have a Gibson was really, really my dream as a kid.

If I didn't love the game, why would I play at the University of Kentucky? Why would I ever come here? It's a serious program.

A big part of what kept me focused on the music was already failing with basketball. I played basketball all of my life. When basketball didn't work, I knew that I had to make it in whatever I decided to do next.

I kept on writing and illustrating, for this is what I did well because I loved it.

Rock & roll has kept us alive for all these years. But we just love country music. It's in our blood.

People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.

One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'

Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.