Quotes About Passion

Who wants a bag of bones?" he said, with absolute sincerity. "I don't want to hurt myself on the sharp edges of the woman I'm bedding.

Mission starts with determining what you really care about and want to accomplish and committing yourself to it. You can always develop expertise. First, discover your preference.

I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.

I find sometimes that if you do too many takes, it starts to become meaningless to me. It is hard to sustain it for me. I don't want to do too many.

Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?

Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

If you have the ability and want it bad enough, do it!

We're not in this for the fast money. Really, what we want is to be part of this industry.

I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute.

Your heart has to let your head know what it wants.

I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.

The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.

In case there is any question in your mind," he said, cupping her face with his hands. "What I want, what I most desire, the loveliest sight on this dark earth, is you.

Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.

There's a thrill in the midst of the hardship in knowing that I'm making the invisible real. And I'm doing what I want.

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

My only prayer for my time with you is, "God I just want these men and women to long for you."

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

If you don't wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you're wasting your time.

Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.

The stage is my comfort zone, and playing live is what I've always wanted to do. It's why I want to do two hundred dates a year. I wouldn't feel that way if I were nervous onstage.

Any time I write a new song, I am jazzed about it for like 24 hours and then I am over it and want to write another one.

I write for myself. I don't write because I have a record coming out. I write because I want to. I need to.