Quotes About Passion

Ryan Murphy and I share our love of horror and musicals. I think those things somehow go together.

Why should I write a play? I don't have to write a play, do I? But somehow, I think that's what I'm here for, so I'd better do it.

It's interesting because neither of my parents play instruments. They both love music, but neither of them are musicians. Somehow, I was drawn to it.

I run around, I listen to a lot of music, go to a lot of concerts. And when I see someone that gases me, I try to go out of my way to involve them somehow in what I'm doing or get involved in what they're doing.

I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States.

Boards and myself get along somehow.

I feel like every project I've ever done has had music involved in it somehow.

You leave part of yourself on every stage you're on. How could you not live in the air somehow?

Carrying my own show again is exactly what I want to do. I loved my experience on 'Less Than Perfect' so much and I would like something like that again. I love half hour - I feel like it's where my heart and soul is somehow. It's the perfect combination of fun and light and extremely challenging.

If, you know, all your life you're making films or whatever, and somehow along the way you lose meaning in whatever you're doing when you're making the films, they're just not the same as they used to be to you. That doesn't mean your life is over; it just means maybe go try to live a different life.

I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.

I just randomly fell into acting. I was so young at the time that I never really thought about acting... After I was into it, I had a feeling that I was going to end up doing this anyway somehow.

Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.

Do what you do and mean it every second of the day. If you don't, you're living someone else's life.

It's nice to have a crush on someone. It feels like you're alive, you know?

When someone comes up to me and says, 'Mary, you helped save my marriage', or, 'Mary, you helped me get out of this abusive relationship', I'm in it, really in their lives. And I'm so passionate about my feelings, but also about showing people the way through theirs.

You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.

For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it.

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

It was never someplace that I said, 'In my career, I must work at Disney.'

I love doing theater. It's what I grew up in and is my roots. I get a huge fulfillment from it. But if my path is to go someplace else, hey, I'm there.

There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.

When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.

I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.