Quotes About Passion

I'm very fortunate to get paid for something I love doing.

I have the best job in the whole world because I get paid to do something I love. How many people do you know who can say that?

I will be very grateful that I get to go out and play a song and get well paid for it.

I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.

I've been drawing since I was a little kid, but it's not something I love to do every day. If there's one thing I love to do every day, it'd probably be acting. I can act every day. I'd happily do it, you don't have to pay me. But that's one thing I'd love to do and get paid for.

I did 'Tumbleweeds' for fun. I did it because I loved it and I hardly even got paid.

When I was younger I didn't really know what a director did: I knew I loved movies and I figured the actors made it up! And then when you get to 12 years old you start thinking, What does a director do? It was really an organic beginning: this looks like something I want to do, I can't believe people get paid to do it!

Pain is love.

Love always, in one way or another, means pain as well as joy.

There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.

Gravity Falls' was a labor of love, but like all labor it could be painful at times.

I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.

I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys.

There's nothing more painful than writing.

If you want to achieve a real labour of love, it can be painful, too.

Sitting idle at home is the most painful experience for a footballer.

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

If you're an artist, you need to work. It doesn't matter how old you are, who you are. It doesn't matter if you're 12: if you draw, you draw. If you're 85 and you paint, you paint.

I paint what I like, when I like and where I like.

I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.

I get up, and boy, I can't wait to paint and study music and keep learning. I just love it.

I often think about death, and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.

If I inherited a billion dollars and didn't have to work ever again, what would I do to fill my day? I'd paint, I'd write jokes and stories, and I'd hang out and chat to very interesting people.

Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.