Meat Loaf Quotes

I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business.

To be in the music industry, to be in any kind of entertainment industry, you really, really have to be passionate about it and love it and persevere, because if that passion isn't there, it's easy to give up. If you really want it, the ambition is there, it'll come. It's definitely harder work than some people think.

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

I will continue to entertain the great British public. Because that is what I love doing.

You'll read things and say, this is a really good project and it's probably going to be a hit, but I can see 20 other people playing that part. You have to have some sense of ownership to do a good job and be married to it for ever.

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.

Lots of people, from what I can see, just want to get into the music business for the glamour of it. But there isn't any, really. It's so up and down this industry, but if you really love it, nothing can stop you.

I love every aspect of show business and that includes both the show part of it and the business part of it.

I never did love Hollywood, I just loved the work.

I'm in love with everything about show business. The only thing that ever came easy to me in life has been acting.

If you don't love what you're doing with unbridled passion and enthusiasm, you're not going to succeed when you hit obstacles.

I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.

I love acting and I have a need to do it, even when the business is down.

Show business is my life.

When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.

You simply have to love show business to make the risk worthwhile.

In show business, generally you don't retire. If you love it, that is, you're in it forever anyway.

If you love what you do, you're going to work hard enough at it in order to succeed. If you don't love what you do, you're never going to be able to work hard enough to make it work.

I had to either get better or leave the field. I couldn't go back to my village as a failure. The only thing that occurred to me was that I would work hard and get better next year. I feel that my love for the craft has got me this far, and this love is still there.

I just want to remain relevant and remain performing at a high level, which I think I do night in and night out. As long as I can do that and I enjoy doing what I'm doing, I'm going to keep on doing it.

It never dawned on me I would do anything but show business.

I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like.

In the end, it’s not about failure, it’s about how much you love what you do.

My work life is intense. But I love what I do.