Quotes About Passion

I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.

He's dangerous, he's beautiful, and he loves the heat, like me - that's why I had a scorpion tattooed on my leg in 1999 after my fifth jersey.

I get tattooed a lot.

Several years ago, I had the words 'let the music set you free' tattooed behind my left ear, as it really is my mantra for life.

I just like tattoos.

I have no tattoos. There's nothing I've even been that into to get a tattoo of it.

I have lots of meaningful tattoos, also some others are for just passion.

There are a lot of people that might not like tattoos; I respect it. For me, it's my passion, so the same way I respect their view, I'd like everyone to respect my passion for tattoos.

Today, if I could get a job, with face tattoos, being a professor, I would do that. I don't know what university would hire me, but that's my passion.

One of the things I love in life is art. That's one reason my entire body is covered in tattoos.

I've always described parts as tattoos. For actors our tattoos are in the form of films.

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.

I enjoy my tattoos, as you can see.

As a football player, we love tattoos.

Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don't think there's anyone like her that could bring such pain and emotion to a song.

I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music during high school, like every Saturday. And then I went to Berklee for college, in Boston.

My parents taught me to do whatever makes you happy - follow your bliss. That's why I don't make a lot of movies. I'm very meat and potatoes when it comes to work, putting in eight hours each day. I only do what I love.

My father worked real hard. I admired him. My father taught me you needed to work with your brain and not your back. I've made that a passion.

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

I want to work in a bank, definitely. Hopefully, my acting career will go well. But if it doesn't, I go to a bank. If it does, then even at the age of 40, I will still go to a bank, but I have to work in a bank, because I'm really fond of taxation and accounts and investments and all of that. So I will do it. At some point, I will, yes.

What happened is, when I was doing 'Taxi,' the last year, we did this thing where we had on top hats and tails, and we pretended to tap-dance. And I said to myself, 'You know, I always wanted to know how to do this.' So I got myself a teacher, and I started studying, and I got hooked.

Some of our favorite films are obviously not written by the person who directed it. And yet a 'Taxi Driver,' or some Nicholas Ray movie, like 'In a Lonely Place,' seems so personal or obsessive or whatever.

I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.