Quotes About Passion

I'm a workaholic. I could easily work 300-plus days of the year.

Most people don't like challenges at work. Actors love challenges at work.

Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.

An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way.

There are certain scenes you do in a movie that are like catching a wave, and you leave work feeling elated - almost as though you've purged something. That's rare, but you do live for those moments.

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

As an actor you just want to continue to work on things that you like. You can be in this business a long time and consistently working and just be totally artistically unfulfilled.

When not writing and directing, my bread and butter comes from acting and stunt work. I've been fortunate enough to be part of some amazing productions.

It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people.

I've always been a big proponent of not working for the sake of working, because I don't want to work for the rest of my life - I want to live.

I love to work. I have a passion for what I do.

Young actors are serious about their work and don't take any time out from it. I'm very serious about my work; there are probably only two films I've done where I had a really good time.

If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.

If one of my heroes comes to me and says, 'Do you want to work on something?' I just say, 'Yes.' I don't ask for details; I don't expect to get paid anything. I just love working with my heroes.

When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's.

All I want to do with my life is try and make music that I really love, and so every day I try and work on music.

When I was on 'Saturday Night Live,' all I did was work.

I was told that I was good in my dance movement classes and that I should concentrate on dance because it would enhance my ability to get acting work.

My friends and I have all been super motivated to work and to do the work that we need to and want to and think should be in the world.

As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.

It should be only a part of my life, but it isn't. I have only one thing: my work.

If you love the work, it will love you back.

I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time at my real work.

I don't enjoy the work that I do. It's just that it's not self-sustaining anymore. The way that I like to make records - they're expensive records to make and just can't afford to do it anymore.