Quotes About Passion

When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.

Figure skating is not a hobby. Its my work, which I want to do, and do well.

I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.

Beauty is my heritage and my core. But my passion is design for the spaces where we live and work.

I think people should be proud of the work they do, whatever it is. I have this other arty side that loves creating homes. I can be happy going to the hardware store.

My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life. So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.

I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life. If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I'm an artist, I hate saying that.

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously.

I wouldn't want to live if I did not have my work. In any case, it's good that I'm already old and personally don't have to count on a prolonged future.

When I was 14 years old, I was by no means trying to work professionally at all.

I really feel lucky that I still feel excited about the actual work that I get to do. I just happen to love it, and I could easily see, for somebody else, that not being the case.

I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live.

I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.

Work on your craft, and your career will come. Work on your community, and your career will come. But just work on your career, and youll have neither a craft nor a community.

Basically, my work is play. It never actually feels that way - I'm always aiming to attain that state. But I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that's pretty cool.

I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things.

Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.

I think I'll continue to work as a solo artist.

In the past, I've thrown myself into work so much there's been very little room for anything else.

I get along great with directors, but I think some producers would tell you I'm a pain. They may say I'm tough to work with, but I have a great passion for what I do. I believe in fighting for it.

Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.

Dancers work really hard, they don't make any money. It's hard.