Quotes About Passion

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

Children will learn to do what they want to learn to do.

All I look for is good quality stuff. Whatever I read, if I like it, then I want to do it. It's as simple as that. I don't have a master plan of, "I should do this genre, and then this."

One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.

Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.

I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.

There's plenty for me to do. There are more albums. I'll record as long as I can and as long as my voice works as well as it does now and for as long as people want to hear me.

It has been rightly said that what a critic wants to understand he must, at one time, have deeply loved, even if only for a fleeting moment.

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

I don't compromise. I only do the stuff I want to do.

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.

Before I die, I want to fight for life.

I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.

I am very fortunate having the job that I do and I want to do it for as long as possible.

It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.

I don't have a problem with dying but I have a problem with what I'm going to die for. I don't want to die for no reason at all. If I'm going to die for something, I want it to be worthwhile.

The sidelines are not where you want to live your life. The world needs you in the arena!

I love soccer; I want to be on the field.

Never deny passion, for that is to deny Who You Are, and Who You Truly Want To Be.

This world without a leopard…I mean, who would want to be here?!

But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.

As an actor, you act in order to make a living. Then, when you can make a living, you start acting because you want to do what you love to do. I need to remind myself of that a lot.

I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.

No, I like today's cinema a lot. But I've spent so many decades only making movies. There's so much that I still want to do. Like, live. It's only up to me.