Passion quotes

“My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.”
Robert Wise

“- Col: He's what she should run a mile away from.
- Fergus: Then why doesn't she?
- Col: Who knows the secrets of the human heart?”
Jim Broadbent - Col
Stephen Rea - Fergus

“- Lillian Weaver: Sweetheart, since Daddy's stopped drinking we have lost our spark. I know that's wrong of me to say it, but... I miss your father the way he was.
- Ruby: But Mom, he was... an alcoholic.
- Lillian Weaver: And I was a classic codependent. I know that. Until I forced myself to stop caring about him. Until I forced him to deal...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tovah Feldshuh - Lillian Weaver
Marisa Tomei - Ruby Weaver

“Light the candle at the bottom of your heart.”
Rutger Hauer - The Mystic Monk

“Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.”
Anna Magnani

“- Dr. Stark: I have work to do.
- Annie McHugh: Oh doctor, aren't you going to see the movie with us? You know it really might relax you.
- Dr. Stark: I'm perfectly relaxed. Science relaxes me.
- John: Would you care for some pie, before you...?
- Dr. Stark: Science is my pie. Curiosity is my sweet tooth. Knowledge is my candy. Bye.”
Patrick Macnee - Dr. Stark
Cindy Williams - Annie McHugh
Bruce Kimmel - John

“- Reed Richards: What I see in your relationship is what I considered the best part of ours.
- Sue Storm: That is?
- Reed Richards: Passion... for science.”
Ioan Gruffudd - Reed Richards
Jessica Alba - Sue Storm

“- Commodore Anastas: I have a passion for collecting.
- Sam Marlow: Yeah? I have a passion for passion.”
Victor Buono - Commodore Anastas
Robert Sacchi - Sam Marlow

“Passion is the enemy of precision.”
Bill Pullman - Daryl Zero

“You must play as if there's no tomorrow.”
Sir John Gielgud - Cecil Parkes

“- Nancy: I know what regret feels like, and I don't want that for you.
- Maureen: That's what ballet would be. A life of wishing that I found something I loved, instead of something I just happened to do well. I'm not you, Mom. You didn't have the feet. I don't have the heart.”
Debra Monk - Nancy
Susan May Pratt - Maureen

“Past the point of no return, no going back now. Our passion play has now at last begun.”
Emmy Rossum - Christine

“- Lyman: Dooley, what is it about me that makes you so passionate?
- Dooley: Well, it's not your looks, Lyman. I guess it's your job.
- Lyman: And knowing your methods of law enforcement, I don't suppose that you have a search warrant?
- Dooley: Dog ate it. You can hang around his tail for an hour.”
Kevin Tighe - Lyman
Jim Belushi - Dooley

“I don't believe in any of the things I write about. I fake passion. I fake conviction.”
Linus Roache - Merton

“- Thomas Jefferson: I kept having a debate between my head and my heart.
- Maria Cosway: Which in your case, the head always wins.
- Thomas Jefferson: Not this time. My poor head was simply whirled around by my unruly heart.”
Nick Nolte - Thomas Jefferson
Greta Scacchi - Maria Cosway

“Your father played the violin. Not well, but passionitely. He made love the same way.”
Claudia Cardinale - Maria Gambrelli

“You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.”
George Lucas

“- Winslow: The Greeks and Romans believed that certain herbs had medicinal and mystical powers. If I'm right, this plant is supposed to be an aphrodesiac.
- D.A.: How strong is it?
- Winslow: I've heard that it makes spanish fly look like sea salt.”
Corky Pigeon - Winslow
Billy Jayne - D.A.

“East or West, men seldom deviate very far from their main passion in life.”
Barbara Stanwyck - Megan

“Avoid all vice and passion - it preys on human frailty.”
Dirk Benedict - Alexander Harris

“Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - William Parrish

“- Sam: Oh my God! Oh my God he's killing her!
- Maggie: Yeah, he's killin' her all right, and she's loving every minute of it!”

Matthew Broderick - Sam
Meg Ryan - Maggie

“I guess I'm a militant optimist who believes in passion.”
Marisa Ryan - Julia Bradshaw

“- Sybil Gordon: Do you love it?
- Harold M. Abrahams: I'm more of an addict. It's a compulsion with me, a weapon I can use.
- Sybil Gordon: Against what?
- Harold M. Abrahams: Being Jewish I suppose.”

Alice Krige - Sybil Gordon
Ben Cross - Harold Abrahams

“I'm an Aztec warrior!”

Jacob Vargas - Joker