Quotes About Passion

That job [on Out to Sea], more than any I've ever done, I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning. And not only that, but I had a great part. So it was just beyond fun on every level.

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you

I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.

I'm not Michelangelo but I would like to be that. I'll never be him but I'm trying to strive to do that in my work.

I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do, my work tends to suffer.

I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It's not that I don't want to work with people, but I do just love doing my own thing.

I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies.

I never did love Hollywood, I just loved the work.

Love can be sordid only if you work at it.

I took my work seriously, but not as a craft. More as a life.

I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.

When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself into.

I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don't quit a career.

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

Work is the most nourishing thing so far in my life.

When you love what you do, it stops seeming like work and instead becomes necessity.

I think it's crucial to live, play and work passionately. I'm inspired by my husband, my son and the sense of possibility in the world.

I have a really wide range of interests and I've still got time to work out my exact direction.

I want to be happy while I make movies and not just do things just to work. I want to do things I spend years on.

I love to work. I'll work all the time, unless somebody stops me. I love it, love it, love it!

Nothing gets you to mend your heart quicker than throwing yourself into work.

Don't you find that work, if you love it, is actually really invigorating?

I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.

But I never gave up personal things to work, never.