Tony Bennett Quotes

If you're fortunate to have talent and getting paid for something you love doing. All you've got to do is perform for 90 minutes.

Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.

People say 'Are you going to retire?' To me, that sort of equates with lying down and dying. When you're doing something you love to do, why would you stop?

Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it 'tap-dancing to work.'

I feel very lucky to be able to call my hobby my job, yet it doesn't feel like one.

It's so insane to me that this is my actual job, that I get to come to set and do what I enjoy doing and get paid for it.

I definitely don't ever see a time I want to retire. Ever.

As long as you are getting to do what you love and getting paid to do it, it's the best feeling.

I've always lived by the principle of find what you really enjoy doing and make it your career.

When you fulfil your dreams you don't count the hours of working. You just enjoy what you're doing.

We do get to do what we love. I think that's really special, and I think sometimes we get really caught up in the winning and the losing and rankings. And at the end of the day, we get to play a sport that we love for our jobs.

I find success to be being able to do what you love and provide for your family by doing what you love.

It's pretty much about doing what you love and following your dreams. It sounds really corny, but it's so real.

Of course we live in a world where we have to make money to eat so that's always nice to be able to sing and make money but to do something I love and to be able to eat from...it's great.

Those people who spend their time working on things they love are usually the ones enjoying life the most. They are also the ones who dared to take a risk and chase their dreams.

Many people say they are so happy to be doing what they do and they love it. But there's a difference between loving your job and living only for your job. And I think people always will say I am overworking and I am over-exposed and that's what I want is all the attention. That's not. What I love is the art of it all.

Do what you love and you'll always love what you do. I've found that that's true most of the time.

Getting up in the morning and having work you love is what makes life different for people. If you get into a position where you don't love what you're doing, get off it.

You have to be very committed and find happiness in the work that you do.

To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one's bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion.

Any career if you're that passionate about it and you really want to do it, then you should go for it, absolutely. I will say acting is one of the hardest businesses, from what I've been told, even though it's the only business I've been doing my whole life. But knowing other people trying to break into it, I hear it's one of the hardest businesses to break into.

Find something to do that you love because then the work itself is always the reward not the recompense. And if you love what you're doing you probably do better at it than doing something you don't love and therefore you'll be compensated appropriately.

My definition of success is doing what you love. I feel many people do things because they feel they have to, and are hesitant to risk following their passion.

My mom said to me when I was a little kid, "You don't have to hate your job. Just because you see all these unhappy grown-ups doesn't mean you have to be one of them." She said, "Find something that you would do for free and find a way to get paid to do it." That's been my guiding principle.

50 years: here's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing what you love, then what's the point?