Quotes About Passion

When I put that first Vine out, I was just doing it for fun; there was no wanting to become an artist.

I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.

For years, I've been wanting to do something that has a bit more of a dramatical drive and combine it with some action.

I know, deep down, that what makes my music what it is are my words. It always starts from me wanting to say something. Once I've run out of things to say, I'll be done.

My mother and father are big musical heroes of mine. I think it was because it was the first memories that I have of actually hearing music and falling in love with it and wanting to be a part of it in some way.

I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.

One of the things that wrong with pictures today, I think, is that so many of the people making them started out wanting to.

Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

Nothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word - and actually wanting to see you.

I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.

Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm.

I started out wanting to coach football.

I started off wanting very much to be a newscaster.

I've gotten to a place where I still love to play and sing, but I don't have any ego agenda left, outside of just wanting to stay in a creative place and play music. I much prefer to sing for somebody else, and to somebody else.

I love acting because you don't have to do the same thing over and over again, every day, and that's what attracted me to wanting to do this for a living. So to be given an opportunity to create something completely different and live that out is the dream. It's incredibly rewarding.

Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.

I developed a group of friends around me that were all as crazy as I was about wanting to make films.

And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But, after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies, I can't quite muster the guilt anymore.

I actually play piano and violin, but I don't have a passion for it. It didn't make me wake up in the morning wanting to do it, or go to bed thinking about it.

As much as I appreciate acting and enjoy it, and like it, it wasn't something where I grew up wanting to be a movie star.

I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff where they can really lose control.

I had a basketball net that my dad had put up outside. I went out there and dribbled all day long. I wanted to play basketball. Then I'd go baseball, and then I'd go to football. I remember playing football in a plowed field. I grew up going from one thing to the next wanting to play something.

I always knew that the only thing I wanted to do was act, but it took me a long time to say it out loud to anyone, let alone myself. I am surprised by how dogged I have been in wanting to make a living as a respected actress.

Everything we have today that's cool comes from someone wanting more of something they loved in the past. Action figures, videogames, superhero movies, iPods: All are continuations of a love that wanted more.