Quotes About Passion

On 'The Impossible,' I was taught how to act. Naomi Watts was there every day constantly teaching me. That was where I discovered I wanted to be an actor.

I find myself more and more behind these days. You have to be really diligent. I don't have kids, which helps. I'm always working on something, whether a book, or a law review article that no one will ever read, or teaching. It pretty much means I work a lot, but it's all stuff I love.

If I wasn't acting, I'd be teaching acting. That would be my easiest thing to fall back on is teaching it.

If I hadn't been an actor, I would have been a coach, and I would have been a good one. All teaching is is communicating.

I was teaching, which I didn't love or hate; it was just OK. I was OK with it, and the hours were good for surfing or whatever. All not good reasons to go into teaching.

Teaching is in my bones. I love to teach.

I didn't get into coaching to make money. I got into this for the coaching and teaching part.

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

I was studying primary school education. I was going to be a teacher. I was going to get my teaching qualification and have that as my safety net and then tackle the music industry.

I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

I would have been happy teaching music in schools - I still would be, and I still might be, although I don't know if I'm clever enough.

I'm going to be doing exactly what I'm doing now - teaching people about animals.

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

I had been teaching myself photography.

Money is not the reason that people enter teaching.

I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.

If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.

I know I have this kind of teaching element in me, but I don't want to become a 'teacher of theater' because that would formalize something that I'd much rather keep casual.

I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.

The main thing in making your own music is that it's an expression of someone's personality and being. That's what people want to hear, and you can't really teach that - that's just something that comes out. Teaching just hones that.

The only job I'd ever had that might be considered not playing music was teaching guitar, which I did in college for a while, but that still falls in the same category.

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. Some of the teachers were just doing their job, but others had that little extra. They really cared about children and they wore pretty dresses.

In high school, I decided I wanted to learn guitar, so I picked it up and starting teaching myself some basic chords and started playing with friends. Guitar inherently lends itself to be guitar music, especially when you're not good at guitar.