Private Passion Quotes

My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't really involved in music was kind of good, because it meant that I had something that was private and personal.

Music is the most private place in my life, but it's become the most public part of who I am.

I always did sing. It's always been something I love to do but it has also been the most private and most secret thing that you don't really want to let the world in on.

I would love nothing more than to become a professional ice skater, but I would rather do it privately.

Acting was always something I pursued by myself. When we were in college, I took an acting class that I was so passionate about and devoted to, but I went to it privately and never really spoke about it. I'd have these ecstatic experiences in, like, a church basement and then never talk about it with other people.

I might love dancing more than I should admit. But not in public.

Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

I never really told anybody that I'm a rapper. I wasn't walking around being like, "Yo, check out my mixtape!" It was more of a secret grind.

At times I make music, but in private.

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.

Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.

You put so much of yourself out there as an actor. You show the many facets of who you are when you're performing - or who you could be - you show yourself angry, upset, sad, vulnerable. The one thing I keep as my own private secret is the music.

I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing.

I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public.

I was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger... secretly, in my room.

What was a very private childhood hobby turned into a very a public, professional job, and I think that there's a lot of inhibition that can grow from that.