Quentin Tarantino Quotes

I don't love acting enough to give up my life.

Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be living. You have to have a real single-minded kind of tunnel vision if you want to get anything significant accomplished. Especially if the desire is not to be a businessman, but to be a creative person.

Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely, passionately, nothing-can-stop-me committed.

I have yet to meet anyone quite so stubborn as myself and animated by this overpowering passion that leaves me no time for thought or anything else. I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

I have always made sure that I put my game ahead of anything else, sometimes even before friends and family.

Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.

Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you.

I get lonely - I'm not going to lie about that... I kind of signed up in my mind that I'm giving myself wholeheartedly, full-throttle to my creative life, and I don't want to be distracted.

I used to have tears in my eyes on the way to practice because I was so focused. For me, track and field was serious business. I didn't have any friends. I was very isolated and very focused.

Only one sport can subsume my life at a time.

I proved for a long time how much I've given of my heart and of my time to the UFC.

Whenever I do something, I tend to focus on it and spend all of my time and energy on it.

To desire with one’s very soul every second of every day to accomplish one’s aim.

Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done

It's [F1] your life. You're focused on just one thing and there's no room for anything else. Friends don't necessarily understand, because the way you think about life develops completely differently to how it does for normal people.

My destiny is solitude, and my life is work.

I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.

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.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes have burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.

I do my profession, my job, I give me all for my club...the rest doesn't matter to me. I don't care what happens on the outside.

When I find something that I really like and I can get it off, then I put my time and energy into that. It is a lot of work....

I dedicated all the time I had to it. The 10 hour workout was just what I put in the magazine at the time, but for me it was every waking moment.

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.

'Polytechnique' changed everything in my way of working. I became an adult, really, during those five years. I didn't work on anything else but 'Polytechnique.'