Quotes About Passion

I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.

Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up with the messy material conditions of trying to make a living while doing that work.

For my own part I am more interested in my work than its mere money value.

If any man will preach as he should preach, his work will take more out of him than any other labor under heaven.

The only part that's ever frustrating is just the deadline. If left to my own devices, I'd work for a year on something that doesn't need to be worked on for a year because I enjoy it.

I have people talking about, "Boy, I hate to go to work." I love to go to work!

I try to be known more for my work than for anything else.

I like what I do, and I'm very fortunate now to be in a very nice place. Which is that I don't have to work anymore. So the work that I do now is purely because I really want to.

When I find something that I really like and I can get it off, then I put my time and energy into that. It is a lot of work....

I just want to do really good work.

I don't approach my writing or my work from an academic or analytical point of view. I do it for myself.

I didn't become a comedian to work this hard.

I have stuff I'm interested in working on, and I'd rather work on what excites me than complete projects from the past that I've grown bored with.

Better not to work on things that you're not in love with.

My whole life is my work.

Learning how to do some of the technical work on the film can be helpful too and allows you to start the film on your own. However, if you are passionate about an idea, just begin.

I take my job very seriously and I work the best that I can on every drum that I hit. I want all the drums and cymbals to sound the best. I strive for perfection and I won't take anything less.

If you're an actor in your heart, no matter how much money they shove at you, it doesn't matter if the work doesn't provide that creative spark. You want out.

With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half.

He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.

In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.

You can only do the work to the very best of your ability.

If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work all the hours under the sun, whatever it takes. If you're not determined, you won't get anywhere.