Although I’ve been living in the British Virgin Islands for some time now, I have never stopped caring passionately about the U.K. and its great people.

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

I just was never into performing. It’s just hard work. It’s hard work.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

I’m really interested in smells. I think I’d like to own a perfumery someday.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it’s my entity; it’s my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it’s my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

I love movement. I love moshing.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community’s well being. If you’re dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Marty was an extraordinary person. Of all the boys I had dated, he was the only one who really cared that I had a brain. And he was always – well, making me feel that I was better than I thought I was.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

I’ve always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

A calling is you feel – you look out and see the need – maybe it’s the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it’s the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was – felt called.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.

I like to give back.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.