Quotes About Passion

Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.

Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

I simply do not distinguish between work and play.

If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion.

I tour more than I need to, more than is good for you. But it's my favorite part of music. I much prefer it to studio work.

If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do.

I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm grateful for it. Viva le book!

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

I don't need to work right away. I'd rather wait for something really good; to be excited about a role, or a director, or a project.

My parents wanted me to work in a bank or as an accountant.

One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river.

I'd rather work on my radio show, which no one hears but I put about eight hours of programming and writing into it for those 30 people who do tune in.

I am going to continue to work hard, but I do not take it too seriously, I just do what feels right and I really want to have a good time.

I really would not change anything. Have a passion for what you do, work hard, have great people with good personalities, enjoy the ride.

I actually work at my craft, and I actually want to be the best in my category, and I want to be a true actress. And a lot of people just want fame, and there's a huge difference.

My core values are still the same about music, and my work ethic, and what I want to represent to people.

I think the work is always going to be much better when it's important and personal to you.

My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'