Quotes About Passion

Cricket can produce some amazing feelings on the field and I have been lucky enough to experience a few along the way.

We all played in my family and cricket has always been in the blood.

To be honest I wasn't very good at football. I loved cricket and when I started making some big scores for my boys' team, I dreamed of becoming the next Border.

At 17, I realized that it's going to be a tough decision to make, but I had the clarity of thought to walk out of cricket and try my luck in acting.

From nine, I started playing cricket. From 11, I knew this is what I'm doing.

I don't know if I've ever screamed or cried for a band.

It wasn't a decision to become a writer. I wanted to become a writer of crime fiction. I was very specific.

I sort of cringe when I hear myself say the word 'work.' Getting to do something you love to do never really feels like work.

If I hadn't chosen acting, I would be a food critic.

I'm a very tough critic of my guitar-playing. Sometimes I don't even want to do it anymore.

If I weren't an actor, I'd either be a teacher or a critic.

I'm not a critic, I'm not there to tell people what they should think about something - I just want to kind of enthuse about stuff to let people make their own mind up about it.

We can be critical of the things that we love. That is possible.

We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

When you're doing a film, it's your film and it's, you know, your blood and - is in it along with everybody else's, and it's the greatest picture ever made when you're shooting it. It's only after the critics and then the public say you were wrong that you realize that you were wrong.

I don't make films for critics.

I don't think I can create films just for critics. It's just not me.

Football without critics wouldn't be football.

It would be a dream if I was able to fight in Croatia.

Of course it is very important for me to play for Croatia, however different it is to play at club level.

When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.

I did my first cross country race when I was about 10 and absolutely loved it. I wasn't particularly good, so I didn't just carry on because I was good, but it just really appealed to me.

I grew up going to rock shows, and the lines of rock n' roll cross over with wrestling so much.

If the fans want to enjoy watching me fight, enjoy me with my love for fighting, it's fine. But if they don't, it don't cross my mind. If the fans still love me, I can put on good shows for them.