The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.
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.
You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.
My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that.
My passion is New York and the vitality that makes it special.
I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.