When you're up on stage, especially being a female guitar player in a male-dominated field, if they just see you're into it, and it's your passion, and you're just giving it your all - it's not, like, an accessory - then it's all cool.
My dream was to be a 'scientist' even before I knew what a scientist did.
It's painful to consider anything but writing.
I don't want to be some actor talking about how he wants to be a musician. It's something I'm really passionate about and I don't want to be spouting off at the mouth about something before it's out there and can speak for itself.
Anything I do, I spend a lot of time. I do it with passion and intensity. I want to be in charge.
Actually, I didn't take up acting. Rather, acting chose me.
Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.
Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.
Me wanting to be an artist never really faded away. I knew that no matter what else I tried to pursue, my passion was always that.
I was lucky to be passionate about a field that was full of opportunity.
I think there are very few people, in my generation at least, that are that passionate about what they do.
You don't have to make, you know, $3 Million dollars a movie, or $20 Million dollars a movie, but if you make a living doing what you love doing, then that's success to me.
Passion makes the old medicine new: Passion lops off the bough of weariness. Passion is the elixir that renews: how can there be weariness when passion is present? Oh, don't sigh heavily from fatigue: seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!
If you're making something you're passionate about, it's not going to feel like work.
My Vocation is my Vacation. I love what I do.
For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the children of that blind father; a passion, that carries us to commit errors with as much ease as whirlwinds move feathers, and begets in us an unwearied industry to the attainment of what we desire.
You must find something that you deeply love and are passionate about and are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve.
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.
I have always advised people never to apply for a job you do not really want.
I've been saying to people for a long time, 'If you're not doing something you're tremendously excited about, and you're not feeling passionate about it, you're compromising yourself every day.'
The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.
I really feel gratitude every day in my life that I'm able to do what I love, and I think, because I have that passion and spirit, I've had success.
Tonight," he whispered, his voice hoarse and hot in her ear, "I will make you mine." -Simon to Daphne
