Quotes About Passion

It is a terrible thing to want something you cannot have. It takes you over. I couldn't think straight because of it. There was no one else, I realized, whom I could possibly tell.

I love film, very, very much, and I always want to go back to it.

I'm in the kitchen five days a week, no matter what, and one or two of those days I'm on the line. Not because I have to be, but because I want to be.

The fact remains that we have an obligation to discover what we really, really, really want to do (which is probably what we do best) and then do it even better... much better.

Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.

. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.

A lot of people who are passionate about digital or publishing, they either want to be in New York or Brooklyn.

If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.

There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.

I'm doing more than just making songs for the radio. I want it to be a well rounded sounding experience.

Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.

I teach class. I study music. I rehearse. I coach people. That's it. I'm doing exactly what I want.

I've just been more interested in doing film right now and I don't want to go away from my family for six months, which was what I would have had to have done if I did the play on Broadway.

I love first base. I want to get better.

The first film I directed (Explicit Ills), I did when I was like 27 years old. I had been an actor for a certain amount of time, and then I was like, "I want to start directing."

I read some books that were the right books for me. I read them and I didn't even notice turning the pages anymore. I thought, "That's what I want to do with my life."

Write the book you'd want to read.

A lot of people call me a celebrity chef, but I don't think that I'm a celebrity. So I want to stay keeping just a chef. That's more comfortable.

When I write, I'm writing as a fan, and trying to come up with songs that I would want to listen to.

Honestly I don't like to write songs that often, only when I feel like I need to and when I've got something that I really want to sing about.

I get angry if I do things wrong, but that's what keeps me going. I want to do my best.

I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to write extraordinary things, and to really find myself.

If I knew anything about what people wanted and was popular, I'd still be writing for 'Saturday Night Live'. I can only write what I want, and hopefully people will like it.

I always wanted to be a teacher. A bit of me still wants to be a teacher.