Anna Netrebko Quotes

I've loved art for more than 30 years.

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

As an actor, I don't have an agenda. I don't have to prove a point; I am not a bastion of a particular brand of cinema. I am doing what makes me happy.

I knew I could live no other way, that the one thing I wanted was to act and do it well.

There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.

When you work with a DeNiro or Hoffman, they love what they do so much that there's never any competitive vibe. It's more about how do we do this thing together.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

I've always wanted to be a singer and an actor. I will continue to concentrate on both because I love both.

But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.

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

I love painting so much that nothing else matters.

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.

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 what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

If the work is good, what does it matter? I'm doing it because I love it. Why not do as many things I love as I can? As long as the work is good.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

The way to stay inspired and motivated is by doing what you like, doing what you love.

Whether it be in acting, music, or even in dancing, I only want to do things that I truly connect to, and with my music, it's everything that I am.

I noticed the drama majors on campus when I was at Notre Dame. They just seemed to be freer spirits than the rest of us. There was joy in their work; they were the only ones studying something whose work made them happy. I envied that.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

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.

I think comedians should focus on what makes them happy, what art form fulfills them the most. Don't be calculated about it and say, 'Okay, I'm gonna tweet, and I'm gonna podcast, and I'm gonna do standup, and one of those things is going to lead me to my own TV show.' I don't think that should be the goal.