Quotes About Passion

He saw the pleasure you took from your job every day of his life, and THAT was what he wanted.

Don't differentiate between "This is a job" and "This is what I'm doing for fun." It's all simultaneous.

If you launch a career doing something you don't really like, that even if you're successful, you won't feel successful, and you'll be contemptuous of your own success.

Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing!

I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion.

There are no boring jobs, only boring men.

To be great at anything that you do, you have to love it! but also give it your all..

Being creative is a beautiful thing. Being creative for other people is work. No one wants to work at being creative.

Love is an inspiration. It moves you. It motivates you. It keeps you going.

There are so many directors, young and old, around - all doing their thing and struggling.

My ambition was never to make a lot of money. It wasn't to travel around the world. I was really just struggling to make the best pictures I could make.

I never pondered during my struggling phase that I should have become an engineer, as I knew that was not my life. I couldn't have lived it. It would have been a very claustrophobic life.

There are times when I've been struggling and I get down on myself and my game. I have to remind myself that I've loved this game my whole life and it should be fun.

I have my own stubborn attitude about how I want to play and where I want to go.

My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.

In the beginning, I was very stubborn and always wanted to be just an actor. I was told by a lot of people to try my hand at writing or directing, but I always thought, 'I am an actor, and this is what I want to do.'

My stubbornness of wanting this fighting career has saved me.

When I'm working, I'm insufferable because I get stuck with myself, and suddenly I become obsessive, thinking about how to make something better.

I was OK in school, but I always missed a lot because I was playing so much. But if I'd stuck at it, I imagine that I'd be doing something financial or economical. Finance always attracted me, even though maths was always a bit of a love-hate relationship. I would have tried playing football, but I don't think I'd have made it.

I never thought I would become an actress. I always wanted to get into politics, and I moved to Argentina and worked for the U.S. embassy for a bit. It sort of happened upon me when I was home for the holiday - acting, that is - and I stuck with it.

Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.

Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.

I never wanted to be an actor. I got stuck in it and kind of liked what I was doing.

It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.