Passion Quotes

The secret to success is to make your vocation your vacation.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances.

My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!

The world is not composed of heroes and villains, but of men and women with all the passions that God has given them. The ignorant condemn, but the wise pity.

I hope that the entertainment I give has some lasting effect on people. I hope they see the beauty that I myself am seeking. I am trying to express a beauty that embraces not only physical characteristics and scenes, but the true fundamental emotions of humanity. Beauty. Beauty is what I am after.

I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.

Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.

Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Either Scholarship or Death will be my refuge.

Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.

A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.

When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.

My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.

Only where love and need are one, and the work is play for mortal stakes is the deed ever really done for Heaven and the future's sakes.

When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd wastemy life and be a poet. They were right.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection.