Quotes About Passion

If I just work when the spirit moves me, the spirit will ignore me.

I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.

An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted.

Beauty is to enthuse us for work, and work is to raise us up

I was a big "Blue Valentine" fan. I really loved that movie. And I thought the performances were just unbelievably real, which is certainly what I always strive for in my work.

I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work. If you're passionate about an idea that's stuck in your head, find a way to build it so you can prove to yourself that it doesn't work.

What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.

If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!

Real life is in love, laughter, and work.

When I work, I disappear into work, which I like to do, and sometimes I don't really have a choice. It's not a conscious thing. It's just total devotion to what I'm doing.

Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy.

It is easy to work when the soul is at play.

Work is the best thing to make us love life.

You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?

If you get an audition and you're out of work, you just say, "I've gotta go on this."

I still think that if you're excited about something, you have to work at it.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.

This acting job - it pays very well and you get to live a wonderful lifestyle, but it's something that I love doing, so I want to work with other people who enjoy it as well...

I'm passionate about the empowerment and healing of girls and women. Where I do the most work in that regard is in my songwriting.