Frank Bruni Quotes

I am a zealot, and I am wildly proud of it.

Passion lends them power, time means to meet, tempering extremities with extremes sweet.

If you really believe in a cause, let the cause speak for itself. And if you, by your personality, are damaging that cause, if you really believe in it, you step aside.

I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.

Either be hot or cold. If you are lukewarm, the Lord will spew you forth from His mouth.

My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was something that I was going to put my heart and soul into.

I think all the roles I've done have been very passionate people who go to absolute extremes to make their points.

My family has been around campaigns for a long time. It's something you really have to be sure that you alone want to do. Because if not, if you don't want to do it, that will just blow through the surface at some point, and people can tell. And when people can tell, it's all over.

One cannot accomplish anything without fanatacism.

I don't really put my name to anything that I don't love and believe in, because there's no point.

I always say the same thing - believe in what you do, do it, and don't veer away from the truth of it.

One man with beliefs is equal to a thousand with only interests.

I would rather have a man that knows and loves what he fights for... than a man which you call a "gentleman".

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

You have to believe in what you do. Take something you truly believe in and go about it in an honest way.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

What I don't want to do is go out there and not be able to mean it, you know?

Everything I do I believe in 100 percent, and I believe it's important.

I love people that go the distance. I hate things that are lukewarm. They've got to be one way or the other and go all the way.

I don't do any work that I am not very convinced about. That has always been my stand.

I'm not fanatical or in love with being an MMA fighter.

I believe in my work and advocate for my conclusions.

If you aren't passionate about a vision, it's hard to have faith in it.

For David Halberstam journalism was a calling, not a job. You couldn't fire him and he wouldn't quit.

I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em.