Quotes About Passion

I don't make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they're right for me, and they're interesting and challenging.

Film music has given me everything - career and popularity.

Every time I step out there in the Octagon, I aim to do Australia proud. And this isn't for popularity or a fan base; it has never been for that. It's just because I love my country, and I want to show the world what we're doing down here.

I mean, it gave me so much popularity, and because of TV, I got my first breakthrough. But I just enjoy doing films more.

It's not a popularity contest to me. It should always be about the music.

Art has never been a popularity contest.

These people who come to Comic-Con and dress up - all across the country, the rest of the population who doesn't understand are scoffing at them.

In Colombia maybe 95% of the population follow Formula One. It's crazy.

Any social movement throughout history has always been carried out by only 7% of population being passionately active in that.

I make these songs for me. That's the truth. I make them because that's what I want to hear. Long before you ever hear it, believe that I'm in a Porsche with the top off listening to it.

I think my passion is really more towards older cars, but I think if I said Ferrari or something like that, Id say their brands are really it. Whether its cars I own, probably Ferrari F40 or Porsche Carrera GT.

The bottom line is music, for me, is an exhaust port for life, and if I have a chaotic year, then I'm gonna write a chaotic record, and that's what happened with 'Ziltoid,' with 'Z2.'

David Sainsbury has been good for science and good for innovation in the U.K. He has been an outstanding science minister and shown extraordinary passion and commitment to his portfolio.

I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction.

Climate change is an issue I care passionately about and have dedicated a significant portion of my life to addressing.

You have to give every portion of yourself to it. As an artist, that is just what you do - because we love it - we were born to do it.

I went to a 'Divas' search because I live in L.A. It continued from there. The final portion was in-ring training. I fell in love with it the first day.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Portland basketball fans are the best basketball fans in the world.

We don't have those bougie, not-into-it, wouldn't-be-caught-dead-in-the-free-t-shirt hoops fans in Portland. We've got those pinwheel-tattooed, bleeding-red-and-black, still-rocking-that-Walton-jersey, ride-or-die, realer-than-real hoops fans in Portland. The love is real. The support is real.

I'd love to bring a championship here to Portland.

I just love Portland, man. For real.

Everyone wants to come to Portland to play, whether for us or against us.

That's why I like my job so much, cinema is a nation. I see on Twitter, there's people are calling themselves Portrait Nation. That's beautiful. To me, it's about campaigning for cinema, that's my commitment.

I painted with my husband a portrait of a naked Serge Gainsbourg draped with a French flag, and it hangs in our bedroom. I love gritty and dark art like what the German couple Herakut does.