Quotes About Passion

Writing 'Dog Stars' was coming home. My spirit just sang. It's what I wanted to do my whole life.

I never really think about what people are going to think of the movie afterwards. Or what people are going to call me. I just want to make a great project, and my focus is really all on that. And then I really don't read reviews. Like, you know, go on comment boards or anything.

I think it's very important that we don't sound like militants. Often what we do is we give a comment, and because it comes across with passion, then we're 'angry black people.'

Boxing's in my blood, so I'll always stay involved in that, and I'll probably do a bit of TV work as well, commentary and that.

I started off in FCW working for Dusty Rhodes and being the color commentator down there in 2008 to 2009, and I've always loved it ever since.

I don't think anything that I have done has been forced by commerce exclusively.

I will do films I want to make. I will never make a film for commerce.

I'm no longer interested in being in big commercial films.

I never really think so much about commercial success; I usually just think about records that move me, and 'Baby Got Back' was one that moved me.

I was never writing for commercial success. It's nice that it has come, but it is not important.

You need to come up with a reason to make a movie, separate from the commercial side.

Bottom line is, off-beat film or commercial films, Tollywood or Bollywood, it's the role that matters to me.

Actually I love acting in commercials and I see no shame in that.

I grew up in the business since I was three years old so I've always kind of been in front of the camera and grew up in commercials and I knew that I wanted to do it no matter what, I just loved it.

I didn't want to do film or commercials or television.

You know, I actually like doing commercials. I don't like doing them to the exclusion of everything else, but I like doing them.

Commercials are art, too; they're 30-second movies starring people like me. If you look down on the medium, you're never going to book. If you don't love it, do not bother. Find another job you like.

When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.

I believe you bet on yourself and you commit to something and you give all your energy and effort to it, and that's what I've done my whole life.

I would even commit seven years to a film for Rajamouli.

I started writing songs later in life because I just couldn't commit to it before.

When I do things, I just fully commit to it.

If I'm going to play, it's going to be 100-percent commitment.

I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.