Quotes About Passion

As artists, we'd all love to not be commercial - to not sell out to the full extent that we are able. But you do what you have to do to pay New York rent and continue to do what you feel strongly about.

You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.

I hate writing. There are a million other things I'd rather be doing. I write because I have to. Because if I feel so strongly about what is happening to animals, and I don't do anything to help them, who will?

'ER' was so huge that whatever I did coming back to television, I'd have to feel as strongly about.

I feel strongly about HIV/AIDS and children because I'm a famous singer, a public figure, and I'm a female and a mother. I have the responsibility and the passion to help out and do whatever I can.

I've always felt writing is an art. Publishing is a business. I felt strongly if I was going to write, I would write what I wanted to, and if the 'market' didn't respond, there was nothing I could really do about it.

Every writer has characters that they become attached to and that they feel very strongly about.

You have to believe in something strongly enough that you would lose your seat over it.

The thing I like most about flying in space is not the view. The thing I like about it is doing something I feel very, very strongly about.

What separates me is I'm a dog. I use that term very strongly because that's what I am. That's why I have an angry demeanor. It's not a front. It's not a face.

I think that for every artist, it's very important to have an output and to feel very strongly about the music you're producing.

I strongly believe in the art form of the album.

Dance is my passion, and I feel so strongly about it that just watching people dance lights up my face and makes me come alive.

I started out as a musician. Although I always wanted to have a dual career, I fell into the TV and movie business more strongly and more quickly.

My past as a player is strongly linked to the red, white and blue France shirt.

Product development is emotional for me! It's really important as a brand that we feel that our products are going to be life-changing for everyone who buys them. We won't ever launch something we don't feel strongly about.

I do feel a commitment to this art form and to my father's teaching, and I think the older I get I'm feeling that more and more strongly.

I feel very strongly that the country needs dedicated people who have passion... rather than those who are in politics only for a career.

If people feel strongly and passionately about something, I'll let them speak strongly and passionately - I'm not going to tell them not to.

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.

I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

From the moment I met Martin Scorsese in 1962, he educated me about the films that had taught him so much about filmmaking. He had been deeply affected, even as a child, by great films that stretched his mind and struck into his heart, and he was eager to share them with friends and people who worked with him or with actors who were in his films.

Walking the streets of Porto and speaking with the top engineers at Veniam, I am struck by the passion that they bring to the world with their designs.