My real passion is to make movies, to direct. It’s good for my ego to be an actress. It’s like someone is saying, ‘Yes, you’re beautiful! Yes, you’re doing fine!’ But I feel like a child when I’m an actress. – Maiwenn
It is impossible to say when 37-year-old Benedict Arnold first met 18-year-old Peggy Shippen, but we do know that on September 25, 1778, he wrote her a love letter – much of it an exact copy of one he’d sent to another woman six months before. But if the overheated rhetoric was recycled, Arnold’s passion was genuine. – Nathaniel Philbrick
Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over. – Elizabeth Kostova
I think if you checked the attendance records of all the announcers, you’d find a lot better record than you would of anybody else in any other business because we love the game and have a passion for it. – Ernie Harwell
The framers hated the tyranny of King George, but they were also afraid of the mob. That’s why they put so many checks and balances into our system, to guard against the excesses of a government that might be inflamed by public passion or perverted by a dictator’s whim. – David Ignatius
There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art. – Edmonia Lewis
I never went shopping. That wasn’t my thing. I grew up horseback riding. That was my passion. I didn’t start shopping until about 16 or 17, when I could drive myself to stores and explore on my own. – Mary-Kate Olsen
My passion was to be on Broadway and to be part of this community because I saw what it was like from the outside as the young kid in and around New York, and I would see things like the ‘Easter Bonnet’ or ‘Broadway Bares,’ things I would sneak into. – Max von Essen
As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values. – Edward Levi
I’ve always been interested in people who think out of their time, and I have this passion, actually, for science. I’m just so enormously interested in how, when you think of these revolutionary ideas, other people get threatened, especially if you are different. – David Lagercrantz
This was Shakespeare’s form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire. – Mark Akenside
There’s a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond – and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling. – Daniel Craig
There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion. – Damien Chazelle
I’ve never been one to carefully calculate my career decisions, to sit on the outside looking in. I go with my passion and what moves me. – Michael Douglas
I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you’re following your passion. – Darren Aronofsky
Although I’ve lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner’s passion for all the details of English history and rural life. – Meg Rosoff
I sang throughout school, and it was always my passion. For whatever reason, acting took the front seat, but all of the projects that I’ve been doing seem to have some sort of musical element to them. – Chrissie Fit
I love boats. Anything that runs, anything mechanical. It’s my God-given passion in life. – Dennis Washington
We don’t do things we aren’t good at by nature. I wouldn’t play basketball because I’m only 5′ 1″. Find what you enjoy – whether it’s racing, flying a helicopter, being a doctor, or stitching clothes together. Once you’ve done that, you have the passion you need. – Danica Patrick
When you’re a screenwriter working on a film, you’re not really even welcome on set, even if you know… When I wrote ‘Elizabeth’ and Shekhar Kapur was a friend of mine, but I wasn’t really welcome on set, because the director is God and it’s a very difficult position for a screenwriter who’s put so much passion into that, into the writing. – Michael Hirst
I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book. – Devdutt Pattanaik
I would venture to guess that if I was a construction worker… who requested a transfer to another department for the betterment of his family, I would be commended for it. But because it’s sports, there’s just so much passion added to it. – Derek Fisher
I like a movie that brings out many discussions. From my experience, every time I have done movies, they create this kind of situation. Like ‘Irreversible,’ ‘The Passion of the Christ,’ ‘Malena’; it’s so interesting. I like to explore the dark side of humanity. That’s why I’m an actor. – Monica Bellucci
I’m always curious about anyone who has enough passion to go onstage and say, ‘This is what I’m really passionate about.’ It’s always worth listening to. – Clemence Poesy
What’s powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It’s seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear. – Patrick Swayze
I was a huge fan of video games; I wanted to write something, and I saw the tools at my fingertips to upload a video to my audience, and that’s why I’m here today. I think that freedom and the lack of gatekeepers, combined with people’s passion, is what really the true spirit of Internet geekdom is about. – Felicia Day
I’m not a racist, that’s what so insane about this, and yet it’s said, it comes through, it fires out of me, and even now in the passion that’s here as I confront myself. – Michael Richards
I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level. – Dan Marino
