Quotes About Passion

I was a housepainter and a landscape nursery man, and all these various odd jobs I had, and started doing community theater.

My favorite thing about horror is that it attracts this great group of nuts, of which I include myself in. I was always kind of an oddball. I collected my fingernails, for instance.

When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.

There definitely were times, and I think Michael would say the same thing, where I hated him. We were at odds at times. Even when I loathed him, there were still times when I was like, 'God, I wish I was with him.'

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off.

In terms of theater, I would love to go back to do theater. If I could find something for me to do that fits in with the 'Psych' off-season, I'm game. I would like to do theater where I get to act and dance.

Football has an off-season. Basketball has an off-season. TV has an off-season. Everything has an off-season except wrestling.

Be it commercial or offbeat, I want to establish myself as an actress.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

For some reason, I tend to take on the stuff that people are really passionate about. If you make a list of people you don't want to offend, it's Vonnegut readers, comic book fans, and Coen brothers enthusiasts.

You can only make the best thing you can make, and if it offends purists, or angers certain critics, you can only have done your best.

I always try to play hard as possible to help my team - it doesn't matter if it's on defense or offense. I would say when I was young I was playing like that, too.

The most offensive thing is when people say, 'Everything you do is for the money.'

Duane lived life right on the edge. If you ever read Goethe's Faust, Duane Allman was very much that kind of figure. His deal with Mephistopheles was to experience everything life has to offer, good and bad.

I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

Not everyone is going to like what you do or what you have to offer; however, if you can't see yourself doing anything else, and you have the drive and ambition, get the training and go for it.

I want to offer a word of encouragement to authors: You have to feel called to the message of your book enough that you want people to get that message. When you get to that place, your passion goes through the roof, and then the other stuff happens.

I did something a lot of people will have to do in this economy if they want to eventually land their dream job. I turned down an offer to take a high-paying position in another field because it wouldn't fulfill me.

You have nothing to offer if you're just some machine actress.

What I have to offer as a writer/director is the stuff with the feeling in it.

I have more to offer than music that is automatically dance.

Some people become artists for whatever reasons. Some of it's frivolous. And I don't think there should be any shame on that, but I think there comes a point in life where you want to offer more.

I couldn't afford to go to drama school in London. Then I met with the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, and I fell in love with the city. It was one of the few schools that offered me a place. It didn't do me any harm.