Michael Rapino Quotes

You definitely have to find your passion in life, and then put together a plan to figure out a way to fulfill that.

Passion is what gives meaning to our lives. It's what allows us to achieve success beyond our wildest imagination. Try to find a career path that you have a passion for.

I'm living what I always wanted to do.

I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me.

I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this.

I don't know what drives me. I need to work. I wanted to be in the entertainment field, but I didn't know what.

If there is a job that you feel passionate about, do what you can to pursue that job; if there is a purpose about which you are passionate, dedicate yourself to that purpose.

I always had this vision of what I wanted to do in life.

Acting is my passion since childhood, and I am happy to be in Tinsel Town at a very young age.

I was nine years old when I made up my mind that that was what I definitely wanted to do.

One's life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life.

Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.

My mum said I told her I wanted to be a hairdresser during the week and a star on the weekend and that was when I was really young.

My ambition comes from my passion: finding what I love and then expanding on that.

When you're a kid, you think 'Oh, it's so great. I'm going to go to Hollywood. I'm going to go to Broadway.' For a long time, it was such a novelty.

If you were looking at where you would like your career to go, then you would have to cherry pick The Stones. People love coming to see them. They are it, they are the most definitive rock n roll band ever.

Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.

I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God I've been able to succeed in my chosen career.

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

I don't think I ever thought of growing up to be anything other than a musician. There really wasn't a plan B. Well, a kind of a distant plan B was to be a Formula One driver, but there really wasn't an entry point.

I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.

I just always dreamed of racing cars, but I didn't think I could do it as a living.

I wanted to be a lot of things in my life.

It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.

I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.