Edd China Quotes

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

Passion is the thing that sustains you in acting. If you're doing it for fame and money, don't even bother because it will never happen. The last thing I ever expected was to be paid for this.

I love working with people who are inspired and obsessive.

In acting, you can't do things for the money. You've got to do a project because you like it.

I am obsessed with people that are obsessed with what they do.

If you're making something you're passionate about, it's not going to feel like work.

For me, work is both a hobby and a passion. And sometimes an obsession.

It's music. It's supposed to be fun and inspirational. You have to be inspired. If I did it because it was my 'job,' and I only did it to make money, I don't think I'd still be doing it.

I don't think you pick your projects; you just fall in love with it, and it just becomes something you have to do.

If you're going to collect things because you think they have value, then don't collect. For me, you have to be obsessed, and there has to be something educational.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

I don't even think about the word. But I do have certain things where I just go, "Aaaaahhh," irritatingly boring and insistent because I want it to look that way and I can do it - I don't even know if you'd call it passion or obsession. Obsession, possibly, but I really love what I do.

If you only do it for money, that's only what you get.

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.

Finally, when the money was high enough, the script suddenly revealed itself as being very clear to me.

Football is about winning; it's that simple. You have to love what you do. If you're here for the money, than you don't belong here.

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I was a little kid, I hadn't afforded myself the opportunity, I guess, to have a hobby.

To write, you need to find what you love.

You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.

I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

I cannot imagine stopping singing. It is so nice that I even do it as a hobby.

It's never been about making money.

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

Everything I do is part of my passion.