Quotes About Passion

But Toto is something that's very near and dear to me, and we feel so fortunate and blessed to have been able to have a career playing music for all this time.

I know it's near the end and when it's over I want to be able to say to myself - not anyone else - that I've given it everything. At least in the last part of my career.

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

The most enduring battle is between head and heart; what would be efficient and logical is nearly always trumped by what is messy and illogical.

I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty.

I'm sure everyone knows that my heart is and always will be with the players, the fans and the entire Dodger family. I've cared about the Dodgers for nearly my entire life, and nothing can change my allegiance to this franchise.

We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'.

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

To rock isn't necessarily to cavort.

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

I've always loved music, not necessarily just the Osmonds.

I mean, I don't necessarily want to leave because I have this job, but I would love to do a good play.

It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.

I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative.

I love the intimacy and the passion and the danger that go into independent filmmaking. Because it comes out of a creative necessity. It comes from people who really want to make a movie and want to make a difference and want to grab an audience by the gullet and show them something different.

When a real artist creates something, it has to be a necessity, the only way he can say something.

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up.

As an actor, I have always believed that content is the kin,g and I have always put my neck on the line to choose cinema that is off the beaten track.

You always get that buzz, that feeling of shivers down the back of your neck every time you walk out at Old Trafford or anywhere.

That's what I love about geeks, that they can call themselves a geek and be proud of it. I love that. I even have a necklace with the word 'geek' spelled out in rhinestones, and I'm very proud, myself.