Quotes About Passion

I love the 'Mildred Pierce' miniseries.

I'm a very boring person, and all I do is want to paint and to record what I feel moves me or what interests me, and that can be in the form of a pig or in the form of President Kennedy.

It was no accident that I made 'Hoop Dreams' because it concerned a sport that I loved and hoped would be my dream, however far-fetched that turned out to be. Because of the success of that film, Hollywood pigeonholed me as a sports biopic guy, which led to 'Prefontaine' and two cable sports films.

I don't like being pigeonholed at all. It stemmed from after 'Mandy Lane': I was being offered all these horror movies. I love horror movies, but when I dreamed of being a director, it was always doing all sorts of things.

I'm aware of being pigeonholed in those period drama roles. But, I do love them at the same time.

It's very expensive to maintain pure breed pigs. But I am an animal lover, so it wasn't a problem for me.

I have a pile of scripts at home that I love. Some of them are hard to get made. We have to give up stuff. It's hard to get movies made.

I didn't expect 'Scott Pilgrim' to be successful. I just made this weird comic to entertain my friends.

There were times over the years when I wanted to take a break from 'Scott Pilgrim,' or even just stop doing 'Scott Pilgrim,' when I was feeling down or whatever.

Movies are my pill. I can talk non-stop about them.

For me, theatre and cinema are both pillars of an actor's life; I'd feel very half-baked if I was only doing one and not the other.

What I love about how my career has gone up to this point is that I've always, always put my head down on my pillow at night, and I've been able to say that I've done, honestly, what I've felt like I wanted to do. And that's really all you can hope for in everything you do.

I liked flying, when I got into it, loved it. And I found I was very good at it. I'm not modest about the fact that I was a good pilot.

I dreamt of running my own business even as a kid, but if not a CEO, I would have probably been a pilot.

Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.

I always wanted to be on 'Glee.' As soon as the pilot aired, I said I needed to be on the show.

I took my first flying lesson in 1967, when I was 16. By October 1968, I had 70 hours in the air and got my pilot's license.

I have this TV pilot I was writing for and a couple of films. It's just a different way to express myself.

I'll admit I wanted to be a pilot, originally.

I'm a commercial pilot before I was an actor.

I'm a huge pin collector.

I just always loved pinball.

I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is my favourite LP.

I love Pink, and I love Christina Aguilera. Something about Christina always inspires me to do things that are really different.