Quotes About Passion

I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.

Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

I do love my work. As an actor, you live from job to job, though, and you have to be prepared for that.

I come prepared when I come to work. Not just knowing the lines, but I think I know something about what I do.

My work is my passion so it's impossible to imagine doing all the things I love if I couldn't see - riding my bike, reading an autocue or preparing dishes.

If I'm not playing football, I'm preparing to play football. That's kind of how I kind of view my life.

I feel like I've been preparing for 'First Take' my entire life.

Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking.

As long as I still feel a passion for the sport and preparing for these big competitions, I will carry on fighting.

I spent about a total of one year preparing for the 'Want' album.

I love the draft process. I love the regular season. I love preparing for the games. I just love football.

Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of the fact that one life is not enough to improve just one single note of what has already been written and performed.

What matters about people is their magnetic leadership, their aptitude for helping those following in their footsteps, and their passion - how they choose to package that is their prerogative.

I taught preschool previously, so I was like, 'Oh, I can teach little kids to act, and I can go back home.'

Fire is one of my temperaments. It is behind all my work... Fire is a chemical presence.

When I'm in the audience of Broadway shows, I feel like I'm in the presence of something really special with artists working at the height of their craft and doing the best work that they possibly can.

Football means little without the presence of fans.

I want to go make a movie and be very present for that and give it everything I have, and after we're done, then the rest of the time is mine.

You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present.

I actually began my career by convincing my parents to let me be an actress when I was 12 with a PowerPoint presentation describing acting and my goals.

There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling.

Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.

I loved to sing my whole life, but it was never really - I don't even know how to say it. It was never presented to me as an actual career option.