I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt.
I lived my whole life in the kitchen. Not only that, but it's the passion, it's the love for cooking and food. It's dictated my entire life — every aspect of it. So, in some ways, the thought of not being able to do that anymore radically affects your life.
The music world taught me a lot.It taught me how much happiness it could take from you. J. Cole said it in that interview: People forget their happiness and what makes them happy. Like, what you really wanted to do it for.
I used to love reading when I was little, and then it became difficult and I didn't understand why. I thought, what a bummer, my passion all drained out of me. So when I found out I had dyslexia, it was like, oh, that's what it was.
When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.
The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.
In my time at St. Mary's College, drifting out of sports because it was something that began to feel really finite. And I could see that I didn't have the passion to sustain a career in sports.
I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.
The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.
I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.
When you lose your passion to be a WWE Superstar, there's no point in going back.
It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.
Changing directions in life is not tragic. Losing passion in life is.
It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.
Look well to the fire of your souls, for the tendency of fire is to go out.
The day you stop enjoying something is the day you should quit, if you can afford to.
People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness.
I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.
I think maybe one day I'll go back to music. I don't know. I don't know if sometimes you lose a passion or you don't lose it, it becomes more personal and less about sharing it with everyone.
When you lose your passion to be a WWE Superstar, there's no point in going back. It's a lot of work and sacrifice.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.
Passion is something you really don't miss, after it has cooled. It is like looking at an empty bottle on the side of the road and thinking, "Boy, I wish I had a Coke." The loves you miss are the ones that go away when they are still warm, even hot, to the touch.
Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.
I don't personally feel that I've lost my fire.
If, you know, all your life you're making films or whatever, and somehow along the way you lose meaning in whatever you're doing when you're making the films, they're just not the same as they used to be to you. That doesn't mean your life is over; it just means maybe go try to live a different life.
