Gerard Way Quotes

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.

It's an amazing blessing to do something you love.

My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life

I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.

For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.

I'm grateful for every chance I get to do something I love and have a passion for.

I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my soul.

If I walk away from music, I walk away from myself.

Acting was a godsend. I found myself because I loved acting.

There is more to life than a job. I didn't ever want to look back and point to a bookshelf of videotapes and say, 'That's been my life.' It's so much easier to write a resume than it is to craft a spirit.

You pursue what you love, and if you find beauty or truth, you go with that.

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.

For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day.

I love music, and I love acting, so if I can just live and be able to do those two things, I can be happy, you know?

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 also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.

I define myself by everything that I love, everything I can create, everything that I can imagine.

I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes. I think I'd throw myself into whatever I'm doing now. It's not about abandoning what I was doing before, or giving up. It's about knowing that if I die tomorrow, I lived the way I wanted to.

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.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

When you do multiple things you love, it doesn't feel like work.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what it is that you really are about. And then when you find it, if you're lucky enough to be in a position to do what it is that you love, it becomes easy. I'm blessed that I ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do.

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