Quotes About Passion

My passion never fades out.

The passion to explore and not be afraid to fail - that's something I will always attribute to the Groundlings.

Without question, I've either got to be a writer, or I fail.

I was a failed actor, but for 25 years, I got to go on stage anyway, and I loved it. I've still got the day job, and the travel bug.

Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.

I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.

Most of all I don't want to be bored. That's why I'd rather do something that has some sort of ambition, that risks failing, rather than make safer, more comfortable choices.

Failure of a film doesn't diminish my love for acting.

If I'm excited about it, I'm pretty sure an audience is going to enjoy it. If I'm bored with an idea, you can bet they're going to be asleep. So I try to only do things that I'm fairly excited about.

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.

I suppose that when I started to play the lute it was fairly esoteric.

'Crystal Fairy' was one of the first movies I did after I recommitted to the idea of acting.

If you aren't faithful to your music or your people or your work, then who will care anymore?

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

You need to write about something that you really know about or you deeply connect with. Don't fake it.

When I was younger, my goal in life was to work in special FX makeup. Liquid latex and fake blood! That was the dream!

I'm a real Knick fan, not a fake fan.

I love Man United, and I will always love Man United. It is not a fake love.

You can't control who you fall in love with.

I'm marrying everybody I fall in love with.

You always hope that people will fall in love with the characters you play, the way you do yourself.

It's pretty hard to play 'Romeo and Juliet' with someone and not fall in love.

I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.

Singing has always been a part of my life. I started at Opryland singing, and I realized I could make a living at it. I thought it was something I would grow out of. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. Everything's just sorta fallen into place.