Quotes About Passion

I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the theater as an actor for a period of time, but I have struggled as an audience, and I struggle more now than then. I was always a movie guy.

I really struggled, growing up, with reading and writing. I had a hard time to do that, but I was really passionate about storytelling and about books.

We lived in a hotel for many years as we struggled financially, but I always loved football.

For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

Other fans get antsy when their team's offense struggles to score for a few possessions. Blazers fans give us standing ovations, like they're trying to will their energy into us.

It takes a lot of emotional high and struggles to write songs.

Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.

Everyone yearns for love, and everyone struggles for love.

I am not struggling. What I do, it is what I do.

I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe.

I'm a struggling guitar player.

It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any alternative, you should take it.

I'm a Cub fan, and I sit up here and I know when we have a good team, I know when we're struggling, and it affects me just like any other fan, and I just happen to show it on the radio. I can't help it.

There's almost nothing worse to live with than a struggling artist.

In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City Ballet. My life, to a great extent, had been spent at and with the New York City Ballet, and I decided to try it. It was very scary, writing about something I loved so much and had such strong opinions about.

I love the competition, going out there for 90 minutes, fighting your opponent. If you take this competition away from me, I am not happy.

The Juventus that I know has always shown more hunger than their opponents.

With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.

I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.

I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful.

I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery.

I'm not opposed to auditioning. I love auditioning. It's one of my favorite things.

I'm always interested with other actors in what their process is, and are they still interested in acting, as opposed to being a star.

I've always had an explorative drive to my art, as opposed to wanting to achieve some certain goal.