Quotes About Passion

I discovered I was passionate about the creative process, the product development, creating a concept around a fragrance or lipstick.

Since I'm a mother and a wife, I have to have passion or the frustration would win out. But I love managing people. The product is second to managing the people. And marketing to consumers is so challenging because it is evolving constantly.

But it's often been the case, I've done so many countless small, independent films that really 3.2 people have seen, so you never know. You do it for the joy of the part and not necessarily expect anyone to see the final product.

When you work with people who are so passionate about their product it's kinda inspiring.

It's all about having a product that you're proud of and coming to work every day. Those basic building blocks are the same in any business.

I think, with production, I pay very close attention. 'Cause that's my favorite thing in music. That's the whole drive. That's the reason.

I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.

It's the best marriage of songs and production. But I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova.

I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

If I weren't performing, there is a real chance that I would be a 'One Man, Two Guvnors' groupie. I think that production is masterful in every way.

Personally, I'm not interested in getting more money for what I do; I'm just interested in more money being put into the production.

You have to fall in love with the production, and then there's a certain mind-set that you develop where it does stay fresh in your mind.

I have a production company, I have a marketing company, I have different things that I have going on and different interests and there's nothing wrong with having different interests as long as you prioritize the things that you need to do first. And I do.

One of the reasons I've been able to be productive is that I want to do everything.

I dedicated most of my life to basketball, and that was my plan until my junior year of college when I got ill and was bed-ridden for eight months. In those months, I wanted to be productive, and I taught myself how to produce music on my computer. When I went back to school, I started taking all my classes in music and DJing a lot.

I've always felt like I needed to experience some type of anguish in order to feel productive as an artist.

No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.

If I wanted to do the same thing every day, I would have gone into a different profession.

I feel like I have a lot of dedication to the acting profession.

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

A lot of people are attracted to the acting profession because they think it's a cheap, easy, free ride. It really isn't.

I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw.

The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening.

Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don't have to retire.