Bill Duke Quotes

I love my work, apart from when it's driving me crazy. But I get to be interested in stuff and think like a filmmaker as I'm buzzing about the world and then see an opportunity to make a film, and then make it happen.

I never did films for the money or because I needed to buy a house or car. I do it because I love my job.

I'd love to do films, but I'd feel bad in my gut if I did anything just for the money. I want to wait for something I'm really passionate about, even if I don't work for a year.

To love what you do and feel that it matters how could anything be more fun?

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

People ask whether I put the politics first, journalism first or the comedy first; it doesn't really matter. I'm just playing with the cards that I have been dealt because I really love doing what I do.

If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.

I'm voraciously looking to express myself in my work. I love my work.

I'm very fortunate to get paid for something I love doing.

I get to go make music, and I get paid to do it, and this is what people love me for. I couldn't ask for anything greater, so how could I not go in the studio and make a million songs?

You know, I think I'm more of a micro-person, so to me, the context and the framework of trying to do what you love and feel passionate about, in supporting your family in that way, is the most important thing to me.

I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.

I want to be doing something that I love and actually being able to feed myself by doing it.

I don't do something I won't enjoy just for the money. I do it for the fun, for the joy of working.

Restaurants remind me of bands: there's lots of camaraderie, people work very closely together, very hard, and it's a bad job to pick if you want to make lots of money. Whether music or food, the reward always has to be because you love it.

If I can do quality work with wonderful writers and directors and producers... that's the cherry on top.

As an actor, you just want to continue to work on things that you like. You can be in this business a long time and consistently working and just be totally artistically unfulfilled.

I just want to produce and create projects that I'm passionate about and I love.

I'm just excited that I get to put out the music I love versus music just for the sake of it.

I do want to be able to benefit from my work and make a good living, but I love it so much that I would do it for free.

Study what you love, and you'll never have to work a day in your life. It'll be one great adventure.

I don't think about an industry or building things, but somebody says you're lucky if you find something you like to do, which is true, and then it's a miracle if you get paid to do it.

If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough?

Everyone has different goals. For myself, I would rather take less roles and be working on films that I'm passionate about, that are going to challenge me, and that I'm going to be growing from. I don't ever want to take a movie just for the sake of working.

It's great to get paid for what you love doing most. To enjoy your work. And to follow that. It's important.