I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

I had not expected ‚A Brief History of Time‘ to be a best seller. It was my first popular book and aroused a great deal of interest. Initially, many people found it difficult to understand. I therefore decided to try to write a new version that would be easier to follow.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

When I’m getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

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

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

When everything works best, it’s not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It’s when you’re mad with it, it’s when it’s stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It’s when there’s no hope but that.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

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?

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

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.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

When I do a picture and it’s 90% black, like ‚Bird,‘ I use 90% black people.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

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.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I’d ever have any interest in filmmaking.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

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

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 knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

I have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I first started directing, I said, ‚If I could pull this off, I can some day move to the back of the camera and stay there.‘

There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

The law is reason, free from passion.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

You can be passionate about anything.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.