Quotes About Passion

I'd love to say I made the smart decision of picking projects that became hits, but with 'The Good Wife,' I read the script and something inside me said, 'I love this, I want to do this.'

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

You have to understand how bad I wanted to be a comedian, how much I loved doing it. I still can't believe I get to do this for a living and have people come up and want to see me.

Music is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

I think you have to write what you want to watch.

The heart wants what the heart wants

I'd love to major in Music. I love what I do, but I want to really understand it, more in depth.

You want to live the dream? You do what you want on your terms.

You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.

I gave up that idea of trying to make music that I thought other people would want. I just made music for myself and music for people that I knew.

Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.

You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore.

I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie.

Doing a movie is a stressful thing. You spend months of you life focusing into that one project, and I want to make sure I do something I really like or I'm really passionate about.

I'm addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I'm basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever.

You can always find time to do the thing you really, really want to do.

Don't get too set on becoming an actor at an early age. I think that's where some people get into trouble. Acting becomes their life. I don't want that.

I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated.

You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not.

I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell into it.

I'm a risk-taker. It's where my passion lies, so I don't want to play it safe. That means I'm going to fail sometimes.

Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.

I love Baltimore, I want to retire a raven