Michael Rapino Quotes

I think that most people will spend their whole life not figuring out what they're meant to do, or figuring out what they're meant to do on their way to do something else. So I just feel lucky that I know what I love to do. Everything else figures itself out.

I think it's imperative to follow your heart and choose a profession you're passionate about, and if you haven't found that 'spark' yet, if you're not sure what you want to do with your lives - be persistent until you do.

I get to be a teenager like every other teenager, but I have a passion and a great goal in life.

My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.

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

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

If you find something that you're excited about and you're interested in, my advice to young women and young men would be do what you're really interested in and what drives and motivates you.

Lot of people know very early what they want, but I didn't know I wanted acting.

I was lucky enough to know exactly what I wanted to do when I was growing up. I think one of the hardest things to figure out in life is what your calling is, and what truly makes you happy - not what you want to work at, but what you want to do.

I feel like I was born to do this... I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.

Do whatever interests you the most. Passion breeds success.

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.

I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

I've spent my life following my passion.

People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.

When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.

I've got passion, and for people who don't, I make them see how trite their lives are.

A teenager has to decide what they're going to do with their life, and that's one of the most important decisions that you'll make.

Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had.

I don't want to do anything that I'm not passionate about.

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.

There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting.

It's funny the way life works. Sometimes you go around in a weird path to find out exactly what it is that you love to do, and I'm happy that I've sort of discovered something that makes me really happy.