Life-Long Passion Quotes

I've been with Shakespeare all my life.

Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I never really had a job. I was a football player, then a football coach, then a football broadcaster. It's been my life. Pro football has been my life since 1967. I've enjoyed every part of it. Never once did it ever feel like work.

I was a failed actor, but for 25 years, I got to go on stage anyway, and I loved it. I've still got the day job, and the travel bug.

I want to continue acting as long as I feel right about it.

I know these are my mandatory overs, but I would like to do films for as long as I breathe.

I've been writing since I was 12 years old.

I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.

I've been making arts programmes for almost 50 years, and every day, I can't believe my luck.

Whether I'd stopped playing professionally at 17 - or if I stop at 35 - tennis will always be a part of my life.

When I was a small boy, 10, 11, 12, probably somewhere around there, when I first heard a blues song on the radio, it was a jolt of electricity. It grabbed me by the throat, it made me shiver. And I knew from that moment that this was for me and this would be with me for the rest of my life.

My entire life, I wake up, and at some point in the afternoon, I head toward some kind of musical recording device. My entire life.

Movies were the one thing that I loved my entire life. So I always knew that I wanted to get into acting - I just didn't know when.

I've been doing both music and acting since I was pretty little. Just for fun. Being able to peruse both professionally is the greatest thing in the whole world.

Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.

Basically that was the moment when I thought I'd like to do this forever. I never changed my mind.

I want to make music until I die.

I've been playing since I was eight years old.