Andre Holland Quotes

It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

Getting to play the blues has been transcendant for me. I can't say if my finest hour is yet to come, you want to make a dent in this world, well I do anyway.

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

When you're doing what you love, it's not exhausting at all, actually. It's completely empowering and exhilarating.

The truest drive comes from doing what you love.

The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.

Strengths are not activities you're good at, they're activities that strengthen you. A strength is an activity that before you're doing it you look forward to doing it; while you're doing it, time goes by quickly and you can concentrate; after you've done it, it seems to fulfill a need of yours.

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.

It's important to me if I'm having a good time than I feel like the work is better. The quality of it is better and my level of interest is higher.

I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

In the beginning, I didn't have to love them, my acts. It was mostly about being successful, getting a trophy, and making some money. Now if I don't love the idea of it, I don't work on it.

I just want to work on things that move me.

I don't think anyone does anything from happiness. Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.

I've never done this from a standpoint of, 'I want to be famous.' I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing.

I don't sing for awards, I sing for rewards!

At my ashram, people work long hours joyfully because they are inspired. When people are involved and joyfully doing something, they usually turn out ten times more and do more than what they would normally do as a duty.

Even though acting is my job, I do this because I love it, and when the love is gone, I'm not going to do it anymore.

That makes me very happy as a human being to know what I'm doing is an inspiration to people.

I'm really hoping to find something that I feel as connected with as I did with 'The Florida Project.' I want to feel that passionate about things that I work on. I don't want to just act to act.

I'm one of those people that do what I do because I love it.

I have done work that has appealed my heart, and 'Total Siyappa' is something I really liked.

Getting a script and being like, 'Oh, yeah, I can do this in my sleep.' Who wants to do that? So, finding something that is a real challenge and is going to take all of you, I think, is more rewarding by the end of it.