Quotes About Passion

I don't have to be a "gazillionaire;" what's important to me is to just being able to work.

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.

I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees.

I love to work. I love doing standup.

It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker.

I think life is meant to be fun. You find work that you love and you surround yourself with people that you love. Life shouldn't be too difficult.

If it hurt me to have to give up a painting I figured it had to hurt them to write the check. That's how I came up with the price for my work.

In the end I'm in love with it [Western European easel painting]. And that's where a lot of the influence from the work comes from.

It's very unlikely that a writer is going to make a living by writing. So then the question is: how do you balance work, life, and writing? If you find out, please tell me.

When it comes to my work, I'm fearless. I go with my gut.

Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.

When you want something bad enough, you work your butt off for it.

I have a very simple approach in career: You work with the people you love.

I'm not really a job-type person, where I go do a nine-to-give. I have to be with the work at all times and experiencing it.

When I get into a zone, I obsess and I don't care about anything else. I have to make the work.

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.

I don't really think about my work in terms of whatever money it makes. That's just a bonus. I'm just going to do the work anyway, so whatever comes back is good with me.

I'm not too much of a wild guy. I'm all about work, I'm all about studio.

Work is love made visable.

The goal for me in business is to work on things I want to work on, and be as successful as I can, without achieving any sort of attention or fame. That would be the best. That would be ideal.

My dad had even hired an accompanist to play for me on a piano. But he had never pushed me to music because I don't think he wanted me to be hurt as much as he was if it didn't work.

I feel like everyone directs their own career according to their taste, what they migrate to emotionally and what kind of artists they want to work with.

The biggest thing I learned was that the harder you work for the thing that you love the most, then everything that you want is going to come true.

I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.