Quotes About Passion

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

I have found a love for acting, but I also would like to live abroad for awhile or definitely go to college someday.

For the longest time, I didn't even want to admit I was serious about music. Before the Shins, I would tell myself, 'Oh, I'm going to figure something out someday.' I had this romantic vision of being this old dude maybe making guitars or something.

Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation. In my first conversation with him I learned that he was passionate about flying into space someday.

My default position is not to be an actor. My default position is to be a follower of Jesus Christ. If that means I continue in acting, great! I'd love that. But if it means I need to change professions someday because I can't provide for my family, well, that's what I need to do.

I initially thought I was going to be a teacher. Maybe like an elementary teacher or something like that, which would be fun. Maybe someday.

I'm writing all the time. I want to do this forever. I want to have a box set someday. I can't stop. The day I stop being inspired to write songs, I'll go sit on the beach - until I become inspired again.

Yo La Tengo were a major inspiration for me because they're one of the first bands that I got into on my own, separate from my parents, when I was in high school. I have all their albums. That's the place we'd like be in someday.

The first time I went behind the camera was in 1993. I felt, 'This is my thing,' and I knew that someday I'd make a feature.

I knew that someday, I'd lose the fame. So, I have always kept in touch with my interests.

I really would like to be on Broadway someday.

If you can sing to a room of 60 people who don't give a damn, then if, someday, you're playing to people who really want to hear your music, that's not hard.

As I got older, I fell more in love with movies and thought it would be incredible to someday be in one.

I would love to do a dance film someday.

It was not like I planned even to be a choreographer. It just happened to me somehow.

Everything that is somehow related to direction and filmmaking fascinates me, like cinematography.

If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know.

Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

I remember the first time I heard a co-worker refer to himself as a foodie. It immediately irritated me. Was he implying that he appreciated food more than other people? That his love of eating was somehow more evolved than mine? Don't all people love the thing we can't live without?

I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.

I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.

If you're not prepared, and you're not passionate, and you don't push yourself to a level of human exhaustion on every level, mentally and physically and creatively... I've seen directors who approach it casually, and they do somehow maintain better hours... but I could never be that guy. I am up and editing all night.