Quotes About Passion

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.

I'm a filmmaker. I'm not a politician.

It is football. I'm not a politician.

I'm a musician... not a politician.

I want to write songs, and I would like to play and sing them. I'm not a politician; I'm not a comedian. I hate coming up with bits to do between songs.

I'm really not a politician: I don't have a political background, though I've been an activist fighting for my community for years. So I had to learn a lot about my government.

My father was a politician and I had no contacts in the music industry, but I could still do some good work because I was passionate enough and dedicated towards music.

In the old days I'd like to have been a politician, when I think the world was more idealistic. When I was young I did a lot of campaigning.

I don't have a passion for politics, but I do have a passion for truth and justice.

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

I'm completely hooked on polo.

I'm just happy with what I am, and I happen to be a polo player.

I'm going to start a polo team with my friend, and we're trying to collect as many horses as we can. You have to find time for things you love.

It was like putting your foot into a pond and knowing that I wanted to dive into this. It wasn't even just acting. It was this medium, film. I had to explore it.

To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.

If I don't feel it when I'm sitting there, if it doesn't give me the feeling I got when I heard 'Pony' or 'So Anxious' or 'In Those Jeans,' I scrap it.

There's a few movies I wanted to do, and I didn't get to do them partly because they wanted me to be part of the horse and pony show, getting the money, and I'm just not doing that. There's a few movies that people wanted me to do, but they were too safe.

I was a little one-trick pony. I do what I've always done. That's really where my best stuff comes from. I don't know how it happens. It just happens.

My entire life, I just wanted a pony, and I couldn't care less about a pair of shoes.

I always tell people, good coaches are a dime a dozen. Good coaches that are good people, good husbands, good fathers, that love their players and are passionate about doing things in a way that I believe is important, that pool gets real small.

I grew up dancing and singing, and I pool together my life experience and relationships and put it into work.

A great artist is never poor.

I love 'Babette's Feast' because of the message in it - an artist will never be poor, and you can melt the coldest heart with love and passion.

It was very interesting in my world, because I grew up as a fan and I did not know that there was a thing called R&B, pop, country, classical - I just knew that I loved music.