Quotes About Passion

Music was kind of a precious commodity growing up.

I wish for you all, each of you, to have your own motive for indignation. This is precious. When something outrages you as I was outraged by Nazism, then people become militant, strong, and involved.

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

I construct myself and do things how I want to do them, because your artistry is a very precious thing - it's ultimately your whole life if you want it to be.

You get so close to your own music that you can't see the beauty in it. I had to learn to let go. It's good to be less precious.

I fell in love with pastry because I felt I could be much more creative. It's precise, and you don't have to kill anything.

Would I have done anything different? I might have put a golf club in my hand instead of a cue. I love watching those guys play. Every situation is different, everything - every shot - has to be so precise.

It's not precisely that I'm not ambitious. I love what I do, and I love doing it, and I love getting better at it. I just am not willing to risk... much... to go on to the next level.

Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to consensus. It's not individualism.

The Fender Precision is my instrument, my beloved Precisions.

Boris Johnson needs to be challenged, with passion, heart and precision.

I've always performed. From the time that I was little, I was pretty precocious and always gravitated toward performing arts. But I was scared at first, deciding to do it for a living. So, initially, I majored in journalism, and I was pretty miserable.

I fell in love with Shakespeare when I was 12, and I read the whole works. Yes, I was precocious.

I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.

I have no preconceived ideas; I gave that up a long time ago... The only thing we can do as musicians is make an album we like, and an album that we consider to be incredibly good.

'Boo & Hiss' has been a passion project of mine for a couple of years. I was intrigued with the idea of what would happen in a classic cartoon predator/prey relationship if the predator - in this case, a cat - got to finally do in his adversary only to have the mouse return as a ghost and bedevil the cat.

I wasn't predestined to be a filmmaker; this wasn't an obvious choice to me.

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.

You can't really predict what the fans love.

You can never predict what's going to be successful, so you have to do the one you really love, and I picked 'Mad Men.'

You can never predict a hit or a flop, but it's about what you are happy doing as an actor. Every actor comes with his or her own mindset.

With football, you can never predict what's going to happen.

There were certainly more conventional and predictable paths that I could have taken in life, but I believe in being true to oneself and following the thing that sets your soul on fire. For me, that is music.

I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.