Quotes About Passion

Inspiration is an excuse for doing something you already want to do.

She knew she shouldn't want him with every fiber of her being, but she couldn't help herself. Gazing at him feeling his touch - the rest of the world faded into the background

I hate skin; I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever.

I just woke up one day when I was six and I wanted to play the violin. Then, six years later, I didn't want to play the violin, but I wanted to sing and play the guitar.

Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.

I'd always loved movies, but it wasn't some sort of desperate love of celluloid. It was literally like, "I want to write things, and I want people to see them more."

People would ask me, "what do you want to be when you're older?" and I'd be like, "a singer," and they'd be like, "what do you really want to be?" and I'd be like, "oh, I really want to be a singer."

I'm beginning to see that just knowing the piece is not enough. Having a clear technique is not enough. Having a broad repertory is not enough. I want desperately to get past all those things.

People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.

How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage for that matter.

I need to be happy. I need to set that example for my daughter so that she goes into something she loves, not because other people want her to do something. It's a good feeling, it's freeing.

It's very hard when you're doing a new play that you believe in, and you want to tell the story in the best way possible.

I will say that I've been lucky enough never to have to do a job I didn't want to do, or a play I wasn't in love with.

You always see people coming back to the sport, and I've always thought, 'Gosh, when you're done playing, wouldn't you just want to stay at home?

My advice to first time filmmakers is believe in yourself and the message you want to give in the film you are making.

Just you,' Hardy said when he got his breath back. 'All I want is you.

When you want something so badly, you just do it. You don't think about how hard it's going to be.

I just had a throwaway part, really, if you think about it. I'm not a natural actor, you know? I'm a comedian, through and through. And I really love my lines. Those are the lines I want to do.

What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough.

I'm not in competition with nobody. I want to make good music for my fans who want it, who enjoy it, who learn something from it. And that's what it is.

I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile.

Drama is my sweet spot, but the thing about being an actor is that you want to do a variety of things. I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project.

I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still want to write.