Quotes About Passion

Grandaddy always had Hank playing out in the garage. I heard it so much I just started singing. It was like jumping in a pool. You just start swimming.

I was always hugely into sport before I started boxing. I played rugby, football, cricket, athletics, swimming.

I tried many sports like football, baseball, and swimming. I even played saxophone and piano.

Swimming, it's the best job.

I really live for the racing, the moments in those races where everything slows down even though you're swimming as fast as possible.

I grew up watching swimming and amazing athletes in Australia and grew up wanting to do the same.

I was really keen on horse-riding, too, but I knew I had to give it up to give more time to swimming.

I love swimming, and when I'm choreographing something I'm in the studio dancing all day, every day.

When I was a kid I'd swing imaginary light sabers around, and now I've had the opportunity to get paid for it.

When I first started out, I was really attracted to having my own sense of style because I started swing dancing, lindy hop, and jitterbug.

Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.

I'll do a cappella stuff, rock 'n' roll and swing stuff.

I think somewhere in the back of my mind I've always wanted to make a whole swing album.

If you see something that speaks to you and you can swing it, don't question. I don't regret anything that I've ever bought, only the things that slipped away.

When I first left the Eagles, I said, 'That's it. I'm going to play golf.' After 10 days, it was like... there has to be more to life! I can still swing a golf club, and don't forget, Les Paul played until he literally passed away.

I don't need to practice my swing. I grew up with a bat in my hands.

I've never been someone who's been given work because of the way I look or because I have some box office appeal. I get work because people know I'm swinging as hard as I can, trying to connect, giving it my level best. I have a face for radio, but here I am doing what I do.

I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.

I'm a Scorpio. I have different mood swings.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

I feel like you become a songwriter when you claim that it's sort of like a switch flipped, and you're always writing. Even in your sleep, you're always thinking about it in the back of your mind. The true writing - when you're officially writing - that's just when its front of mind, but its always there. You're always listening for a hook.

I am a passionate nonfinisher. Life is too short, and there are too many great books to read, so if I lose interest or respect, I switch. But when, of course, when you really fall in love with a book, all the others are ignored.

When I meet a good actor, I would like to be a director. When I meet a good director, I would like to be an actor. When there is a good script, I would like to be both a director and an actor. The switch is very natural, not intentional.