Hobby Quotes

‘Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.’ – Dale Carnegie

‘I only work on my books at nights and at weekends. It is really just like a hobby.’ – Jeff Kinney

‘A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.’ – Phyllis McGinley

‘Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.’ – Scott Alexander

‘I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I love the thought that people put into clothes. I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool. I also freely recognize that fashion should be a hobby.’ – Anne Hathaway

‘It’s a hobby for me, but I’m never alone if there’s a guitar there.’ – Alex O’Loughlin

‘The job is so fantastic, you don’t need a hobby. The hobby is going to work.’ – Guion Bluford

‘The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of bread one has made, there always seems to be something new to learn.’ – Julia Child

‘I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.’ – Mitski

‘You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don’t enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It’s not the law-abiding citizens, it’s not the person who uses it as a hobby.’ – Michael Steele

‘I don’t have time for hobbies. At the end of the day, I treat my job as a hobby. It’s something I love doing.’ – David Beckham

‘Life’s a hobby.’ – Joshua Lederberg

‘Beware the hobby that eats.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘Sometimes when you turn a hobby into a job, it becomes work.’ – Jeff Bennett

‘Shopping is a bit of a relaxing hobby for me, which is sometimes troubling for the bank balance.’ – Rebecca Hall

‘It’s my job. It’s not a hobby, it’s how I put food on the table for my family. I have to be on a bike.’ – Mark Cavendish

‘I think it’s really important for people to have a passion… a hobby… riding horses or climbing or riding motorcycles or whatever it is. It’s very good for the soul. And if you can find a soulmate with whom you can share similar experiences with… one who enjoys them as much as you do, then it’s kind of a match made in heaven really.’ – Charley Boorman

‘My main hobby is working. I love what I do.’ – Carl J. Lindner, Jr.

‘While I was still a boy, I came to the conclusion that there were three grades of thinking; and since I was later to claim thinking as my hobby, I came to an even stranger conclusion – namely, that I myself could not think at all.’ – William Golding

‘I never looked at basketball as work. I always enjoyed it as my hobby. I loved it. Once that love is gone, and I’m tired of working out every day and doing all the stuff to get me ready for games, and I’m tired of lifting and conditioning and doing all that other stuff around it, and I’d rather stay in bed, then it’s time to go.’ – Dirk Nowitzki

‘You see, rock and roll isn’t a career or hobby – it’s a life force. It’s something very essential.’ – The Edge

‘I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.’ – Justin Bieber

‘My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a brand new day. She said every morning is a new gift. Her favorite hobby was collecting birthdays.’ – George Takei

‘Modelling was never a career option for me; it was always a hobby. I was modelling while I was pursuing my B.Tech, so the obvious choice after finishing my studies was to do a job. But while I was modelling and doing TV commercials, I really loved being in front of the camera. I enjoyed the shooting process.’ – Kriti Sanon

‘I’ve been recording since 1993. It was a hobby for six of those years. In 1999, I decided to do it full time and take it seriously.’ – Jenni Rivera

‘The music stuff is just a hobby.’ – Tom Felton

‘I recommend everyone who DJ’s to do it as a hobby and make sure you have a day job or are going to school. Only 100 DJ’s in the world make a living doing this, by that I mean making a good, comfortable living.’ – Armin van Buuren

‘I think the best way to find out about something is to try to do it to the max. A lot of people take up a hobby or sport and then find an excuse not to carry on with it. Once I start something, I won’t stop until I’m as good at it as I’ll ever be.’ – Bruce Dickinson

‘My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening – corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year.’ – Emanuel Steward

‘Decorating has always been my hobby.’ – Lee Radziwill

‘I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and I had every hobby there was… name anything, no matter how esoteric. I could have given everyone a hobby and still had 40 or 50 to take home.’ – Cormac McCarthy

‘Eating is my main hobby now, and most of what I do on the weekend revolves around that.’ – Daniel Bruhl

‘People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It’s less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn’t address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.’ – Neil Kinnock

‘Graphic design is a hobby that I started with back in 2010-2011, which I am still doing today. And because of that, I was able to design my own stuff and designed my own logo.’ – Alan Walker

‘I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.’ – Orson Welles

‘I used to always be in Atlanta, chilling. I didn’t really have as much to do. So I would gamble as a hobby. Now I’d rather go into the studio and try to make me a hit.’ – Lil Baby

‘My only hobby is going for walks outdoors.’ – Bidzina Ivanishvili

‘I’m a big cardio guy. I love spinning, and I do that seven to eight times a week because I have time. What else am I going to do? I don’t have a hobby. I don’t play golf; I don’t restore cars; and I don’t have a fixer-upper house that I’m working on. So basically, my day is built around just working out. That’s what I enjoy doing.’ – Shannon Sharpe

‘I bought a tape recorder and some stuff and went to Europe for three months when I was 18. The puppeteering was only there as a hobby. I wanted to be a journalist. When I was 19, and after I had spent about a year in college, Jim Henson asked me to come out and try puppeteering for awhile.’ – Frank Oz

‘I’ve never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn’t made money with it.’ – Laurie Anderson

‘I just went to the hobby shop and got an electricity kit and a chemistry kit, and I’m really excited to do experiments like squeezing an egg into a bottle and growing crystals. I’m really getting into hobbies.’ – Rivers Cuomo

‘I play golf with my shirttail out. I own a golf course because it’s very, very close to my house, and I don’t want to drive 45 minutes to the north side of Oklahoma City to play golf every day. I have race horses ’cause I love horses and it’s my hobby.’ – Toby Keith

‘A secret talent or hobby… Hmm… I weirdly collect shot glasses.’ – Austin Mahone

‘I remember times of anxiety, ups and downs, and times of unexpected windfalls. But my parents loved what they did. And because their work was also their hobby, it taught me that work could be fulfilling.’ – Rosamund Pike

‘I’ve been a writer for 42 years and, yes, it is a full time job for me. Not a hobby, but serious work.’ – Donald McKay

‘I was just trying to play the game, having fun. It was a hobby for me at the time.’ – Muggsy Bogues

‘Music to me is something I did as a hobby.’ – Pitbull

‘Any good business is a hobby. We have an integrated company culture, and I can honestly say that many people who come here to work make Yandex a central part of their lives.’ – Arkady Volozh

‘I would never want to model as my career, but fashion is my hobby. When you love what you’re wearing, you feel good. I also love the extravagance of John Galliano for a big occasion. But I’m very bad with following trends.’ – Maria Valverde

‘I study orbital dynamics as a hobby. My idea of a good time is sitting down and drawing on that knowledge to imagine a space mission from beginning to end, getting as many details right as I can.’ – Andy Weir

‘When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn’t thinking about it in terms of a social impact.’ – Pierre Omidyar

‘I did it for a living, made a career out of it, but now I’ve turned it into somewhat of a hobby.’ – Dick Trickle

‘I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.’ – Satyajit Ray

‘My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.’ – Sam Abell

‘Outside boxing, I did well in cross country competitions and I won a schoolboys’ doubles badminton tournament at once. I was pleased because it was a hobby to me.’ – Chris Eubank Jr.

‘Get a hobby. Maintain your friendships. Hang out with other people.’ – Stacey Snider

‘Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics.’ – Arthur D. Levinson

‘I never really intended to get into sports. It was my hobby and my passion, and I kind of lucked out.’ – Mina Kimes

‘There are two things that I really like to do. One is I like to watch horror films a lot. The other hobby is photography.’ – Ankit Tiwari

‘Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.’ – Dick Cavett

‘My biggest hobby is playing golf, which I really enjoy. Now when I am lying in bed at night, unable to sleep, I find myself thinking about my golf swing. I’m also involved in the Tampa Bay chapter of First Tee.’ – Vinny Testaverde

‘I had such a lack of respect for women that I just treated them as a hobby, trying to live up to the supposed image of Jack Nicholson and all those guys who were womanizers.’ – Christian Slater

‘If you’ve been told all your life that you’re good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby – or even have depth.’ – Brittany Daniel

‘Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it’s just about projects that turn me on.’ – Matt LeBlanc

‘I have only one real hobby – my husband.’ – Florence Harding

‘Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it’s my job, I have no hobby – except watching TV and laying around the pool reading ‘U.S. Weekly.’ I have tried many hobbies, such as knitting, Pilates, ballet, yoga, and guitar, but none of them have taken.’ – Meg Cabot

‘Cooking is our hobby. We find recipes we like and then try to turn them into good meals. Most of the time our experimenting turns out pretty well. But sometimes we create lousy dinners.’ – Fred MacMurray

‘Climbing’s always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I’ve had family, but no, it’s been a driving passion in my life, and, uh, I’ve always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster.’ – Andy Serkis

‘As an actor, you have a ton of downtime, so it’s always good to have a hobby, especially another creative outlet outside of acting.’ – Chandler Riggs

‘Music’s a hobby to me.’ – Blackbear

‘Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.’ – Henry Rollins

‘Walking is my hobby, and I’m lucky that I live right on the edge of Hampstead Heath.’ – Gemma Jones

‘I sat down with a yellow legal pad and began writing ‘A Time to Kill.’ Had no idea what I was doing. It became, over a period of several years, a secret little hobby nobody knew about except my wife, because she was reading chapter by chapter.’ – John Grisham

‘I love writing and making films. What started as a hobby ultimately turned into my profession.’ – Sajid Nadiadwala

‘My hobby is silence.’ – Leon Russell

‘I’ve been making bronze sculptures for a long time. My sculptures are wholly unsuccessful and uncommercial. No one is even the remotest bit interested in them. So it’s almost like my hobby.’ – Tracey Emin

‘I do a lot of video games – I have a YouTube channel where I record me playing video games with my friends and post it. That’s a hobby I have and a lot of what I do in my off time.’ – Chandler Riggs

‘Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.’ – Larry Flynt

‘The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.’ – Scott Alexander

‘I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that’s my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I’ve finished a movie but don’t tell anyone.’ – Eric Bana

‘Music is a hobby, because I’m not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting.’ – River Phoenix

‘I do what I did as a hobby as a kid, you know, and make a living at it. And I just feel like I’m one of the luckiest guys in the world ‘cuz I get paid to make toys and play with them.’ – Rick Baker

‘My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.’ – John McCarthy

‘I think climbing is less a sport and more a hobby, and as such, I think everybody’s a beginning climber.’ – Alex Lowe

‘In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.’ – Brad Holland

‘The only consistent hobby I’ve had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I’m looking for the next job.’ – William Sanderson

‘I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don’t believe in yourself, no one else will.’ – Laurell K. Hamilton

‘You know, piloting really isn’t my hobby. And, it’s probably not something I’d do in my spare time if I could do whatever I wanted to do. But, I’ll tell you: if you’ve got to make a living, it’s a great way to make a living!’ – Duane G. Carey

‘Then, all of a sudden, he stopped and nobody heard from him or got a response to orders. At this point Rod Walker looked him up and found he was living in a commune and seemed to be dropping out of the hobby.’ – Fred Davis

‘I am a very lucky man. I am living my life with my hobby as my profession.’ – Jim Sullivan

‘But, of course, one relies on the everyday people who just simply like your music, for whom you may not be a hobby but they enjoy being in your presence at a concert.’ – Cliff Richard

‘Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.’ – Jack Kent Cooke

‘I didn’t get into this to pick up a new hobby. I don’t want to just be a golfer. I want to be the best.’ – Gabrielle Reece

‘Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.’ – Brian Lumley

‘While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn’t getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing.’ – Tom Berenger

‘Sunshine Cake is just a fun hobby thing. That’s about it.’ – Krist Novoselic

‘It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.’ – Mandy Moore

‘A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.’ – Marion Zimmer Bradley

‘But most is all to do with work. There are aspects of work that are enjoyable, that you could call a hobby.’ – Heston Blumenthal

‘My singing is my hobby. It’s me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.’ – Taryn Manning

‘Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It’s my hobby to go around to shops and markets.’ – Ursula Andress

‘Artists usually don’t make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.’ – Linus Torvalds

‘I’ve not as yet found one hobby that would absorb me completely when I’m not working, but I have just bought a new apartment and didn’t quite bargain for the amount of effort and time and money that that absorbs.’ – Hugh Dancy

‘One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969.’ – Kenneth G. Wilson

‘I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I’d pick out an author and I would read all their books.’ – Tom T. Hall

‘Golf isn’t just my business, it’s my hobby.’ – Lee Trevino

‘I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.’ – Sandra Bullock

‘Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.’ – Mason Cooley

‘Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.’ – Dean Kamen

‘Midi is my hobby.’ – J. J. Johnson

‘Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.’ – Dave Barry

‘Working out is my biggest hobby. It’s my Zen hour. I just zone out.’ – Zac Efron

‘You know, my parents have always been incredibly supportive. I’m an only child, so we’re very close. There’s just the three of us. They’re exceptional parents but also great friends. My father was able to take his hobby, photography, and turn it into a beautiful career. So when they saw how much I loved acting, they were 100 percent behind me.’ – Sophia Bush

‘You know, I’ve carried a weapon for 10 years, never shot anybody, never robbed anybody. It has saved my life twice, but I know they’re not toys. I practice with firearms, I enjoy shooting, it’s a hobby of mine and I have a healthy respect for them.’ – Luke Scott

‘I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.’ – Brandy Norwood

‘I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes.’ – Chris Moneymaker

‘I love to dance so much. It’s one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby.’ – Mia Maestro

‘The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.’ – Barbara Corcoran

‘I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn’t until I started listening to jazz, joined the choir and picked up a guitar that my little hobby became something far more serious.’ – Kimbra

‘Right now the music is more of a hobby since I’m making a good living as an actress.’ – Amy Jo Johnson

‘Philately is normally a boys’ hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I’d pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection’s value. I always hoped I’d stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn’t to be.’ – Sophie Ellis-Bextor

‘I do destroy men on a weekly basis. It’s like a hobby. I’m like a praying mantis.’ – Kesha

‘I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is ‘Star Trek.’ They are by and large very imaginative, very intelligent people, and they certainly have been more than generous to me.’ – Kate Mulgrew

‘I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn’t do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you’re done, don’t make your hobby your job.’ – Eric Bana

‘Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.’ – William Baldwin

‘So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.’ – Rick Baker

‘When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in warm water. I like to ski, if I have the opportunity. But really, I like to go to my studio and write music that I want to write, where there’s no pressure to come up with a hit single.’ – Scott Weiland

‘My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.’ – Joel Osteen

‘Everything I do is part of my passion. I do the things I like to do. It’s sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby. I love to play piano, sing, and act. I love to do all those things.’ – Harry Connick, Jr.

‘Designing is my hobby. If I didn’t do what I do for a living – at some point when I don’t do this for a living – I’ll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.’ – Ellen DeGeneres

‘Actors always have things that they’re not thrilled about on a show and have a hobby of bellyaching about those things.’ – Jon Cryer

‘I do the things I like to do. It’s sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby.’ – Harry Connick, Jr.

‘Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby – nothing more.’ – Bonnie Raitt

‘I have a new hobby and it’s pretty much logging.’ – Eric Church

‘Writing doesn’t leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a profession.’ – Nelson DeMille

‘Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I’m doing or dream projects I have.’ – Vin Diesel

‘It’s helpful for me to get ideas – the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It’s nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.’ – Erin Morgenstern

‘Mountaineering has always been a huge hobby of mine.’ – Andy Serkis

‘Yeah, I mean, climbing’s always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I’ve had family, but no, it’s been a driving passion in my life and, uh, I’ve always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster. So, it was great to be able to get to do it.’ – Andy Serkis

‘Most recently, I learned another hobby: baking. It’s so much fun to mix all the ingredients and to see the cake come out nice. It’s so rewarding when the cake comes out great and tastes great.’ – Yani Tseng

‘Well, actually, plucking my eyebrows is more of a hobby than a grooming tip.’ – Courteney Cox

‘Music is my life – acting’s just a hobby.’ – Steve Burns

‘Back in the ’40s and early ’50s, building simple electronic projects was a popular hobby of many people. Back then, you could buy, you know, a few parts and – with tubes and build something on your kitchen table, and it would actually work.’ – Robert Moog

‘The phone’s not ringing off the hook, but that’s ok by me. I feel very fortunate, work to me has become a kind of hobby.’ – Matt LeBlanc

‘I don’t think there’s a hobby that I haven’t tried on.’ – Jennie Garth

‘I love fashion, but it’s always been my job, whereas horseriding is my hobby.’ – Carson Kressley

‘TV was my hobby. I loved the glitz. I loved how hot everybody was.’ – Andy Cohen

‘Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don’t go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.’ – Andrew Stanton

‘A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it’s obviously something I’m fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It’s what I would naturally be doing anyway.’ – Felicity Jones

‘When I came into the industry I started with acting and I did drama during junior high and high school. I fell into dancing as a hobby, but whenever you need work, you try out different things. So I booked a lot of jobs for dancing and it kept rolling and rolling.’ – Harry Shum, Jr.

‘That’s a hobby of mine – to do whatever I can for unusual for-hire creative projects. I am waiting for someone to really challenge me – obviously I’m often approached to do film related work, but I would be very happy to design a bar or an amusement park ride. I would love to be an imagineer!’ – Roman Coppola

‘It was a hobby I got into a long time ago, hacking cameras. I was able to make my own using different lenses.’ – Evan Glodell

‘I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don’t know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism.’ – Ransom Riggs

‘When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a Starbucks on Broadway.’ – Susan Orlean

‘I would like to make sleeping my new hobby, except that I’m too tired, really, to have a hobby. But a girl can always dream.’ – Susan Orlean

‘I’d love to maybe try writing. I don’t know if I’d publish anything, but as a hobby, it’s really nice. I bought a typewriter, and I really like to write on the typewriter sometimes. It’s a fun little hobby.’ – Emma Roberts

‘Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.’ – Malcolm-Jamal Warner

‘As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I’d go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.’ – Natasha Bedingfield

‘Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can’t go too wrong.’ – Arthur Phillips

‘When you meet someone, ask about what hobby they have, not what they do. People always ask me about cooking, but I prefer to talk about tennis or boxing.’ – Wolfgang Puck

‘Maybe someday, if I work hard enough, entertainment will be a career for me, but right now making videos and uploading them to the Internet is just a hobby.’ – Ray William Johnson

‘When I was 10 or 11 people started saying there was something special about my voice. But when I was 15 or 16 is when I really thought my hobby could become my career.’ – Jessie J

‘Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation.’ – Al Jardine

‘My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuff like pigs, cows, and chickens. We really don’t have an honest-to-goodness farm, more of a hobby farm.’ – Al Jardine

‘I’m an off-road racecar driver. And I think every woman in my life has told me that’s not a sensible hobby. But when I was growing, even more than I wanted to be funny, I wanted to be a racecar driver. That’s all I thought about. I worked for a race team when I was 15 and I traveled with them.’ – Dax Shepard

‘All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don’t seem to have a hobby or anything.’ – Tom Paulin

‘When a man wants to relax, he will slob out and really relax. Or he will pursue a hobby – anything from building models to watching sport.’ – Julie Burchill

‘Music is just a really fun hobby that I do, because I’m actually really good about writing songs and producing. People don’t realize this, but I am an excellent writer for artists.’ – Tila Tequila

‘I don’t have any hobbies. Music is my hobby.’ – Ronnie Dunn

‘Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it’s been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life.’ – Bryan Lee O’Malley

‘I’m a really boring bloke, actually. My business is my hobby.’ – Lloyd Dorfman

‘When I wrote ‘Sideways Stories from Wayside School’ I never expected it to be published. It was kind of a hobby. Now, it’s a job, but it’s a job I like very much.’ – Louis Sachar

‘If something happened where I couldn’t write music anymore, it would kill me. It’s not just a job. It’s not just a hobby. It’s why I get up in the morning.’ – Hans Zimmer

‘I like clothes and fashion. It’s a hobby for me and I really enjoy being part of it, so it’s nice when people say: ‘He can dress quite well.” – Richard Madden

‘If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody’s hobby.’ – Joan Fontaine

‘I think a lot of people learn to code messing around with things while in secondary school. And for me, it started up as a hobby and a plaything, and I just became more curious over time.’ – John Collison

‘Golf is just for fun. I have no time to be a pro golfer, not even after F1. I think it’s too late and I’m too old to learn now. Golf is just a hobby and maybe I can improve a little bit more.’ – Heikki Kovalainen

‘I guess I need a hobby. Currently my primary hobby is complaining.’ – Jay Duplass

‘If I was working nine to five, acting would be my hobby… I always feel like maybe I should do an Open University degree. But I’m never going to.’ – Claire Foy

‘In the U.S. and Europe, there has been a lot of creative hobby innovation, and that’s great.’ – Erik Hersman

‘I don’t want to put any pressure on the music; it’s my hobby and my release – a thing that I love.’ – Iwan Rheon

‘Television is the most interesting hobby I’ve ever had.’ – Kevin O’Leary

‘I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.’ – Patrick Fugit

‘Music was never just a hobby for me. I’d pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing at the time. I would put my ideas in songs the way some people might put them in diaries or journals.’ – Tracy Chapman

‘I have tried to create main characters who are drastically different from the types who generally appear in crime novels. Mikael Blomkvist, for instance, doesn’t have ulcers or booze problems or an anxiety complex. He doesn’t listen to operas, nor does he have an oddball hobby such as making model airplanes.’ – Stieg Larsson

‘I don’t consider roles like in ‘Die Hard’ what I do. This is like a hobby. It’s fun. I had a good time. And I love being in a movie that people actually go see. But it’s about things getting blown up. It’s not about great character development.’ – Bonnie Bedelia

‘When my YouTube videos started to get really big, I was like, ‘Man, this is pretty sweet.’ It started as my hobby, and then I started traveling and learning how to play different instruments, and then it just kind of became my life.’ – Austin Mahone

‘I’ve always been interested in singing. My sister’s a fantastic singer, and it’s just something that’s always been around. I play saxophone and guitar. I’d definitely like to pursue it, and it’s something I’d like to keep going, if not as a career, then as a hobby.’ – Charlie Rowe

‘I do freestyle jumping. Been doing since I was eight years old and can’t quit. I’m addicted. I’ve broken many bones, but I ride with confidence. It’s my thing – there’s no high on earth like it. It’s my hobby and I really enjoy it.’ – Vanilla Ice

‘All I’m doing is painting. It’s my hobby. And that’s that.’ – John Mellencamp

‘I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you’d get your supplies, and then you’d use your imagination.’ – Amy Sedaris

‘All my life I’ve encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I was a little kid, I hadn’t afforded myself the opportunity, I guess, to have a hobby.’ – William Gibson

‘Nothing is a hobby – each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has ‘minor works’ that they do, but I don’t think I have any ‘minor disciplines.” – Patti Smith

‘I like a little bit of revolution. I think it’s a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.’ – Caitlin Moran

‘All I do is watch TV and films, and when I’m not doing that, I’m making them. I need a hobby!’ – Rebecca Mader

‘I’m really into acquiring film paraphernalia – that’s my hobby. I love old movie posters, cameras and film reels.’ – Sarah Gadon

‘Dance is a very disciplining career or hobby. I was disciplined at an early age.’ – Teri Polo

‘Photography is a hobby born out of my time in undergrad at USC. It is more of a pleasurable hobby, a stress reliever. I don’t consider it a professional endeavor like acting or directing.’ – Lee Thompson Young

‘I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.’ – Mara Wilson

‘I can’t take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.’ – Mara Wilson

‘Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends’ projects, but when I do, it’s just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing.’ – Mara Wilson

‘Figure skating is not a hobby. It’s my work, which I want to do, and do well.’ – Adelina Sotnikova

‘I studied to be a chef as a side thing, a little hobby that I enjoyed doing, but I ended up falling madly in love with the food and the lifestyle.’ – Kelis

‘My father said writing was a nice hobby. He strongly encouraged my brother and me to become doctors.’ – Tess Gerritsen

‘Acting is my passion, and Chelsea FC is my hobby.’ – Phil Daniels

‘I really like writing music. That’s kind of like my little hobby. I like that because sometimes you don’t really have any control when you’re an actor, over what you’re doing next, and everything is kind of decided by other people. You’re always waiting to hear from people.’ – Amelia Warner

‘It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.’ – Lauren DeStefano

‘My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it’s military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long!’ – Nathan Kress

‘Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background. In that way, we see the growing up of the American food scene: that it’s okay to be a regular person and be really into food.’ – Dana Goodyear

‘Collecting shoes is my biggest hobby. I’ve got a couple hundred pairs of Nikes and Jordans. I got a lot of hats, too. I like to play basketball, but nothing competition wise.’ – Chumlee

‘Searching for our kindred dead isn’t just a hobby. It is a fundamental responsibility for all members of the Church. We believe that life continues after death and that all will be resurrected.’ – James E. Faust

‘One of the best places for a shy person to meet people is in a coffee shop. If you are a reader, bring a book and read it there – that gives a guy something to ask you about. Same goes for sketching, writing, or any hobby you can take with you.’ – Laurie Helgoe

‘The piano has been my friend all my life; it has always comforted me. Writing songs and sitting down at the piano is not only a business, it’s a hobby I enjoy.’ – El DeBarge

‘I’m very lucky to live my life through a sport that I love. I’m in a very privileged position that my work is my hobby.’ – Tony McCoy

‘People over 100 are the fastest-growing group in America. People soon will be working ’til 100 – some because they have to – and living ’til 125 or even 135. What do I know, I’m just a weatherman, but I’ve made a hobby of studying this, and it’s phenomenal.’ – Willard Scott

‘Punk rock wasn’t a career choice. It was a hobby that we did for fun. We never thought we’d get as big as our idols in T.S.O.L. or certainly not the Ramones.’ – Dexter Holland

‘Caravanning can be as simple or as luxurious as you choose. My own experience is probably not dissimilar to that of many families across the country who also share this hobby.’ – Margaret Beckett

‘My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So that’s how I ended up going from being a hobby astronomer to a professional astronomer.’ – Dimitar Sasselov

‘It gives me a huge buzz when people say they’ve enjoyed my books, because this grew out of a hobby, and it’s an absolute passion, and it’s lovely when I get feedback.’ – Alison Weir

‘History was a hobby for about, oh, 20 years before I got into print.’ – Alison Weir

‘Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career, and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself. I started playing bass in November 1996, and by June 1998 I was doing my first live show.’ – Malcolm-Jamal Warner

‘People choose to read, and it takes effort. It’s not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It’s more than a hobby.’ – Gabrielle Zevin

‘You can approach ‘The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death’ in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman’s peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study.’ – Robert Gottlieb

‘I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career… Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.’ – Cara Delevingne

‘I just sing. But I have a fun hobby: I love to do archery. I’m pretty good on target. I’m not sure about the distances – maybe only 7 or 10 feet, so far, but I’ve scored the bull’s eye several times, but usually always hit the target.’ – Jackie Evancho

‘No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I’d settle down.’ – Hannah Murray

‘Singing is more of a hobby than really something I want to do for a career. But I love musical theater, so I’m hoping I can go back to it and do a role on Broadway for a few weeks. That would be a dream come true. My dream role would be Roxie in ‘Chicago.” – Jillian Rose Reed

‘Taking your clothes off in front of strangers is something of a hobby in Germany, among both men and women, especially in the former communist East, where it was one of the few freedoms allowed.’ – Luke Harding

‘My parents separated it, and that let me know that TV life wasn’t my normal life; that was my job and my hobby.’ – Tahj Mowry

‘I can see my work as a job. I do it for money. I likely already look forward to the weekend on Thursdays. And I probably will need a hobby as a leveling mechanism. In a career, I’m definitely more engaged. But at the same time, there will be periods when I think, ‘Is all that really hard work really worth my while?” – Stefan Sagmeister

‘Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life’s work – often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West.’ – Michael Leunig

‘Watching soccer is my main hobby, really. I’m no tactician or coach, but I enjoy watching the free flow of it, the different styles, and the histories behind clubs. Like Barcelona vs. Madrid – it’s not just a soccer game; it’s a geopolitical struggle. There are great storylines and no commercials.’ – Andrew Luck

‘I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby – it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.’ – Kaskade

‘I studied psychology for a couple of years as a personal hobby, so you start learning about people and listening to your intuition, like when you you’re feeling that people are not being entirely straight with you.’ – Afrojack

‘Gastronomy is my hobby. I’m simply the casting director. Once I’ve brought all the right people together, it is they who must work together to tell a story.’ – Alain Ducasse

‘Every human being in this world is interested in certain things. Everybody has a hobby. Some people like art; I know nothing about it. Some people like books, some people like fishing, some people like music. I like to look at cars.’ – Bikram Choudhury

‘Poker is just a hobby I’m passionate about. It’s not supposed to bring glory.’ – Jason Alexander

‘I try to lead a pretty active lifestyle. My biggest hobby is traveling with my family. I love to travel to new places and try crazy things. I’m a bit of a daredevil, so I have done things like zip lining, parasailing, scuba diving, and reverse bungee jumping!’ – Caroline Sunshine

‘This is every creative person’s dream – a hobby that I’m lucky enough to get paid for.’ – Stephan Pastis

‘It is by God’s grace and provision that Hobby Lobby has endured. Therefore, we seek to honor God by operating the company in a manner consistent with biblical principles.’ – David Green

‘When Hobby Lobby was created in the early 1970s, I was committed to use profits to help ministry work.’ – David Green

‘Hobby Lobby has always been a tool for the Lord’s work.’ – David Green

‘This is my hobby: growing stores, adding stores. It’s fun.’ – David Green

‘My father, whose hobby was collecting secondhand cricket books, came back from a book fair one day with a copy of ‘The Body In The Library.” – Sophie Hannah

‘I have been playing games since I was about 6, and they’ve always been a big hobby of mine.’ – Rhianna Pratchett

‘I write and record all the time; it’s my hobby and my passion.’ – Alvin Lee

‘I’m a physicist and computer scientist by training. I worked in high tech for thirty years as everything from engineer to senior vice president – for many of those years, writing SF as a hobby – until, in 2004, I began writing full time.’ – Edward M. Lerner

‘My husband went through a phase of giving me vacuum cleaners, sewing machines and Mixmasters. It’s ironic. He is encouraging me to develop a hobby, I think.’ – Cate Blanchett

‘I was going to school thinking I was going to do something entirely different, thought acting was just a hobby at that point, met Stanley Kubrick and was like, ‘Whoa, this can be an art form, and you can really move people the way you do simply by acting.” – Vinessa Shaw

‘My only real hobby is playing music. I write a lot of music on guitar and keyboards and hope one day to make a record or maybe even write the score for a film.’ – Graeme Base

‘I’ve had an absolutely charmed life in every aspect of it. I do for my job what I would do for a hobby if it wasn’t my job. Half the secret of happiness, I’m ecstatically happily married with three great kids, you know. It’s been a blessed life.’ – Graeme Base

‘The Beach Boys was a family hobby that we turned into a profession. We’re very blessed.’ – Mike Love

‘I cannot imagine stopping singing. It is so nice that I even do it as a hobby.’ – Jose Carreras

‘Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape from whatever realities were distressing me, and the only source of pride I knew, other vanities lying beyond my grasp. I couldn’t do anything else well, but I could do words.’ – Cynthia Voigt

‘I don’t call acting a real job, and writing is a hobby.’ – Joel Edgerton

‘My favorite hobby is matchmaking. It’s a lot easier to do it in movies then in real life because in real life, people don’t do what I tell them to do.’ – Susanne Bier

‘I like doing my makeup myself! It’s a hobby of mine. I like to play around. I’ve learned all the best tricks from the pros!’ – Natasha Poly

‘I was a kid living in New Jersey, who – I’d wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn’t even really into jazz that much.’ – Damien Chazelle

‘It’s just always been a hobby of ours to make music that makes us happy and excites us when we make it.’ – Chuck Inglish

‘It sounds a bit sad, but my new hobby is knitting. I love it. I find it really relaxing.’ – Ella Henderson

‘Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.’ – Avi

‘I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby.’ – Chet Faker

‘Some people collect stamps, other people like to be famous. I don’t have that hobby.’ – Manoj Bhargava

‘For a man without hobbies, I stand in a wonderful spot, where what I do is my best hobby, and everything else is a poor second.’ – Robert Preston

‘What I do is not go outside. My hobby is that I write, so if I’m not acting or being a mom, I’m writing.’ – Bryce Dallas Howard

‘Some people would call me a workaholic. I don’t consider this time: I just love my work so much, so it’s my real hobby, OK? And, yeah, getting some play during working hours for which you are paid is the best job I can recommend for anyone around!’ – Andre Geim

‘I never went to school for photography and started when I was pretty young. I was somewhere around 12 or 13. I started photographing as a hobby and carried that hobby through high school and university.’ – Lynsey Addario

‘I try to have fun; I try to inject myself into my work and have a good time along the way and not lose sight of who I am, and who my friends are, and all of these things that treating it like a business might hinder. I try to keep that hobby mentality.’ – Ray William Johnson

‘I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn’t really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.’ – Zach Galligan

‘Acting and singing were just a hobby, but getting into drama school made me realise I could actually do it for a living.’ – Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

‘I became interested, through reading the works of some novelist, in Egyptology and made a study of the pyramids. It was just a hobby, but I had a desire to know all I could about everything I could.’ – Charles M. Schwab

‘If you want to make YouTube your career, you have to accept that it is also a business. I know everyone’s like, ‘It’s my passion, it’s my hobby.’ And that’s fine; I support that. But if you want to make it your career, it does have a business side.’ – Lilly Singh

‘Music feels like a six sense to me, and it’s never been just a hobby. It’s something that I have to do to breathe. It’s an extension of who I am.’ – Shamir

‘I’m a fairly ordinary person – a lifelong reader, a former software engineer, and former math teacher. I come from a wonderful family of teachers, musicians, librarians, and engineers. I think I surprised them as well as my friends and coworkers when I took up writing as a hobby and let it take over my life!’ – Carol Berg

‘About 10 years ago, in an effort to gain a better grasp on McCone’s world, I took up the hobby of building fully electrified scale models: first of the legal cooperative where she started out, and then of her own brown-shingled cottage, a pursuit that the more tactful of my friends label unusual, and that the more blunt refer to as obsessive.’ – Marcia Muller

‘The profession is never going back to those days when a handful of wealthy people treated publishing like a hobby: one where the business can lose money because the family has lots of it to burn. Frankly, I don’t think that model was ever sustainable, and it really only enriched a small number of writers.’ – Victor LaValle

‘I’ve hit a point where my big luxury is getting to work on the things I want to work on. That’s my hobby. It’s being able to do a movie like ‘Chef,’ where you don’t get paid, where you get paid scale, but you get to do exactly the movie you want to do. To me, that’s worth more to me than whatever money I would have gotten paid.’ – Jon Favreau

‘Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it’s one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I’m a very lucky man.’ – Sam Worthington

‘I’m essentially working from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep. It’s my biggest hobby but also my favorite career that I could ever have. Every single platform is important.’ – Tyler Oakley

‘I’ve never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby or sport. Is gardening selfish?’ – Alex Honnold

‘My favorite hobby is writing and recording songs at my studio. I like to surf, but I don’t get a chance to do that as much as I’d like. I don’t live close to the beach. I also like to ski, but I don’t get to do that much, either.’ – Scott Weiland

‘I design for a feminine woman who appreciates art a lot, either as a profession or as a hobby.’ – Christian Cota

‘Religion that is contained only within a church building is a weekend hobby, not a personal faith.’ – James Lankford

‘On an average day, I will spend 90 percent of my waking moments working on ‘Superwoman.’ I’m a huge workaholic. My hobby is ‘Superwoman.” – Lilly Singh

‘I worked with the Groundlings, doing sketch comedy and improv at a theater here in L.A. It was my hobby, but I took classes and stayed passionate about it because it’s what I wanted to do. It just fit. It takes a while before you can actually make money at it. I worked for years.’ – Fortune Feimster

‘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.’ – Adrian Tomine

‘I was thinking about what it was like for my parents to have a strange kid with a hobby or a pursuit that maybe they weren’t that familiar with. It must have been a strange experience – nerve-wracking, in some ways.’ – Adrian Tomine

‘In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn’t become mainstream.’ – Halsey

‘The Huffingtonpost.com does not pay its writers. Tina Brown’s thedailybeast.com does pay its writers. You have to be paid because this is not a hobby. You have to keep that standard. You can’t ask grandpa to loan you money because you have to go to Afghanistan. I walked the picket line for that to continue.’ – Pete Hamill

‘Sitting on a corporate board is a hobby for me.’ – Gordon Gee

‘When I went to college, it became more of a hobby, and that’s when I think I got the realest music education. It wasn’t something that I had to do. It wasn’t an obligation.’ – Awkwafina

‘It was just me and my mum growing up, and my mum’s always said that’s why I’m so mature. We were best friends, and if it wasn’t for her, I wouldn’t even have started athletics, because she wanted me to have a hobby.’ – Katarina Johnson-Thompson

‘My mum and dad’s hobby was amateur dramatics.’ – Katherine Kelly

‘I acted out a lot. I was very nerdy. I was very isolated, which I made up for by kind of talking and trying to entertain people and get them to like me, so I did theatre and improv in high school and college, but always as a hobby.’ – Aisha Tyler

‘I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.’ – Edgardo Osorio

‘Before I became an actress, I was a cellist. I’ve been playing since I was 14, was in a lot of bands, and acting was more of a hobby.’ – Callie Hernandez

‘Thinking is my hobby. But sometimes you get to where you’re stuck and you can’t figure it out, so you just go work on another project. I always have multiple projects.’ – Dean Kamen

‘I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.’ – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

‘Building and launching rockets has been a lifelong hobby that my son and I share. We regularly travel to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert to launch rockets.’ – Steve Jurvetson

‘This is what I’ve always wanted to do ever since I was a little girl. Coming from dance and theater and what was accessible to me in my hometown, it was all I did after school and on the weekends. The idea of making my hobby into my job was the ultimate quest.’ – Gugu Mbatha-Raw

‘When I was younger, I always liked acting. You know, like, acting locally, or community theater at school. But it’s not an especially insured career choice, so I was like, ‘It’s a hobby. Whatever.” – Tavi Gevinson

‘I didn’t take music seriously in the beginning. It just kind of a hobby to me. It was something that I love doing for fun.’ – Yuna

‘My hobby first and foremost is collecting automobiles. I have a fairly nice, finished 6,500-square-foot structure that I call my garage.’ – Bill Goldberg

‘I wouldn’t have taken up modeling as a profession. It was more of a hobby.’ – Kriti Sanon

‘Anybody who knows me knows that I don’t just love this sport, I am in love with it. I am really in love with this sport. I am obsessed with boxing. I eat, breathe and sleep it. You know, I do it all; this is my life. This is not a hobby for me. This is a lifestyle for me, and I address it accordingly. I take it very, very seriously.’ – Deontay Wilder

‘After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.’ – Fatima Sana Shaikh

‘As soon as you take your hobby and make it into your profession, it sort of kills it as a hobby.’ – John Knoll

‘I was always a visual artist my whole life, and I came to music really late – when I was 21 or 22 was the first time I ever touched a musical instrument. For me, it was always this fun side hobby.’ – Tycho

‘I studied computer science and graphic design, yeah, so music was self-taught and a backburner thing, an obsessive hobby.’ – Tycho

‘I like tweaking the studio and wiring things up almost as much as making music, so that’s kind of a hobby of mine, in and of itself. I don’t like to collect gear that I know I’m not going to use, though.’ – Tycho

‘I grew up in a very musical family, but music was not encouraged as a career. It was a hobby.’ – Colm Wilkinson

‘I have made a career out of my hobby, which is an incredibly fortunate position to be in, but you have to have the passion. Even today, I will go down to the studio and start singing for what I think is 10 minutes, and I look at the clock, and it’s been two hours.’ – Colm Wilkinson

‘I wasn’t looking for a hobby. If I were looking for a hobby, it wouldn’t be the United States Senate. That’s one of the toughest jobs I’d probably ever do. I just felt there wasn’t enough compromise going on: People were too far to the left, too far to the right, with no one trying to build a compromise.’ – Linda McMahon

‘I was an electrician, and I started acting as a hobby because I needed a distraction – I was bored! And only when I started did I think, ‘Sheesh, what have I gotten into?’ I had to go after it fully; I just had to.’ – Liam Cunningham

‘Writing and playing songs is something that I’ve loved doing since the day I started. It’s never been a chore; it’s always a hobby. To be able to do that from day to day makes me believe I’m a very lucky person.’ – George Ezra

‘I always did music privately as a hobby, I think partly because I was nervous to do it in front of other people.’ – Alessia Cara

‘Rapping was a hobby; when I went to college, there were a ton of dudes rapping. I think that’s where I got my rapping chops up.’ – Jon Bellion

‘Dance has always been the center of who I am. It has given me the inspiration to help other people find a hobby, passion, and activity that fulfills them. It also taught me some of the many skills I need as an entrepreneur: a hard work ethic that takes practice to master and the confidence to persevere through any challenges.’ – Payal Kadakia

‘For me, making a record is a vacation. I’d like to do it more often. Just, chances are impossible… It’s a very expensive hobby, you know?’ – Steven Van Zandt

‘I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that’s more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors – hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.’ – Ramez Naam

‘I put some songs on the Internet back in 2009 – that’s kind of how everything started with Washed Out. I had never really planned on being in a band or anything like that. It was kind of a hobby I did on my own, just recording music.’ – Washed Out

‘I thought ‘Arnold Layne’ was a nice name and fitted well into the music I had already composed. Then I thought, ‘Arnold must have a hobby,’ and it went from there.’ – Syd Barrett

‘I wanted to master the art of cooking. Maybe, when I slow down and do one or two films a year, I will learn how to cook and pursue it as my hobby.’ – Dhanush

‘Standup comedy was my weird hobby. I would drag my poor parents out to the only open mics that were in coffee shops instead of bars. I’d get up and go, ‘Hi, I’m 17, and I have jokes about matriculation!’ At the time I was like, ‘Why is no one laughing?” – Alexandra Petri

‘As a student, I had a hobby of inventing new ideas for products. For me, thinking of new businesses is like inventing new products.’ – Masayoshi Son

‘I need a hobby, and I don’t want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.’ – Jack Antonoff

‘I was not a nice little girl. My favorite summertime hobby was stunning ants and feeding them to spiders.’ – Gillian Flynn

‘Every time I’d do a play, my grades would get better because I was doing something that fed my soul. It took me a couple of years to recognize that the hobby was actually the calling.’ – Sterling K. Brown

‘I do tend to lose myself in whatever job I’m doing or hobby I’m into.’ – Sam Heughan

‘I’ve gone through a whole series of careers where something started as a hobby of some kind. Almost everything I’ve been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught.’ – John Knoll

‘Cooking’s my hobby.’ – Jake LaMotta

‘My first husband is a lovely, lovely man, but he always viewed my job as a hobby, and there came a time where I resented that.’ – Judy Sheindlin

‘Nick Knight was my first big gig as a ‘real’ model. Prior to and during ‘ANTM,’ I never actually called myself a model because I always viewed it as a hobby.’ – Winnie Harlow

‘I started making Super 8-mm films when I was about six years old and just never stopped. It was always just a hobby, but it’s one of the few hobbies that can actually become a career. You know what? I think it was my plan from when I was six that this is what I was going to do.’ – Doug Liman

‘American business needs more conscience, not less, whether from religious motivation like Hobby Lobby or from secular intentions.’ – Josh Hawley

‘Other guys like to go golfing, but music is my hobby.’ – Jake Peavy

‘Everywhere you turn, there are lists and statistics. Any business, any sport, any hobby – we will try to categorize who is the best at some component of that endeavor. It’s part human nature and part technology, since we have been conditioned to have access to answers and trivial problems at our fingertips.’ – Michael Gerber

‘One of the things that I’ve never seen in tabletop gaming is this juvenile notion that the existence of a game that I don’t like, or the existence of a gamer who’s different than me, threatens my very existence and the very existence of my hobby.’ – Wil Wheaton

‘No one understood why I would wanna be behind the camera, not in front of the camera, and so no one took me seriously, and people said, ‘Oh, well, this is just a hobby isn’t it?’ and I said, ‘No, I really love this. I wanna make this my career,’ and I did not have a lot of support at all for many years. People just kind of thought it was a joke.’ – Amanda de Cadenet

‘Painting is just a hobby. I really don’t think of it much more than that. But writing music and writing words… my life would feel as if it had a big hole if I took those away.’ – Stephen Hough

‘After I joined Google and stopped working on robots – I’d built some self-driving tractors on farms in the meantime – I was always tinkering and playing with robots at home and just as a hobby.’ – Anthony Levandowski

‘I’m in a very successful band. We all love each other. It ain’t ever breaking up. I also have a terrific hobby that became a full-time job. My only problem? There’s not enough time to sleep in my world.’ – David Bryan

‘I came to Mumbai for my internship in advertising in an ad agency. Back then, a senior from my college who was working for Balaji asked whether I wanted to act. I agreed, and I didn’t even know when it became my passion and my hobby.’ – Kratika Sengar

‘I have been making hip-hop since I was a kid growing up in New York in the ’80s and ’90s. It’s always been a hobby of mine – I’ve been making beats and writing songs for as long or longer than I’ve been acting.’ – Dash Mihok

‘As far as my education goes, I’ve always felt that was my hobby instead of acting.’ – Mawra Hocane

‘If you had a hobby, family, or wanted to do things besides work – you should join VMware. We didn’t have nearly as long hours as Google given our customers worked normal business hours.’ – Diane Greene

‘The writing became a hobby in the background: it took a back seat to parenthood and being a person and being a human being.’ – Dolores O’Riordan

‘One day we were in Limerick… and then, a few weeks later, we were being flown around to play. When we started, it was just a hobby. It wasn’t any big ambition.’ – Dolores O’Riordan

‘Music has always been my passion. It was not a hobby or something I can take out of my life.’ – Jessica Sanchez

‘I actually built my own dining table back home in Australia. It’s a secret hobby of mine that I weirdly find transfixing.’ – Benedict Samuel

‘I’ve always liked to learn how to do things – I’m a hobby person. So I’ll learn something at a beginner’s level, then usually move on to the next thing.’ – Sharon Van Etten

‘When I was younger, I was a little bit fat. I wasn’t, like, big-time fat; I was just overweight – maybe around when I was 13 or 14. At that time, I wasn’t practicing that much; tennis was just a hobby. But it wasn’t easy to feel that way.’ – Stan Wawrinka

‘My hobby is raising my children.’ – Lynn Nottage

‘We were told not to turn our hobby into our job, but to turn our job into our hobby. As kids, we were told not to pursue our dreams!’ – Khalid

‘I’m a weensy-government conservative from the Midwest, Christian, mother of two, homeschooler, and my hobby, profession, and passion is news.’ – Dana Loesch

‘Music was always encouraged as a passion and a hobby, but I was never told, ‘This should be your job. You write music and record for a living.’ It doesn’t happen for people.’ – Lucy Dacus

‘I was always interested in cooking; it was always a hobby of mine.’ – Steve Ells

‘I was sad and in a dark place, and I turned to a hobby to sort of take me out of that.’ – Cole Sprouse

‘For me, it’s my work – I have a job, and that job happens to be with insanely talented actors. At this stage, it’s normal to me. But when I meet new people, I realise, ‘Oh, yeah, it’s actually really strange. I have a very unique hobby.” – Angourie Rice

‘I acted as a hobby when I was a child but wasn’t initially very good at it.’ – Tuppence Middleton

‘I haven’t thought too much about the word ‘foodie,’ but I definitely lie closer to the ‘I just need to eat a thing to fuel myself’ end of the spectrum. It’s not quite a hobby. I don’t feel a need to try all the newest restaurants.’ – Lisa Hanawalt

‘I’ve always done magic as a hobby. I’ve done it professionally, too.’ – Harry Anderson

‘For me, work is both a hobby and a passion. And sometimes an obsession.’ – Daniel Lubetzky

‘When I started in 2007, YouTube was just a fun hobby for others and myself.’ – Franchesca Ramsey

‘Vlogging started as a hobby – something I was partaking in purely for fun – and has now become a career, and that feels almost like an impossible reality.’ – Grace Helbig

‘At least inside the city of Seattle, driving is going to be a hobby in 2035. It’s not going to be a mode of commuting the same way hunting is a hobby for some people, but it’s not how most of us get our food.’ – Oren Etzioni

‘I was satisfied with having a couple of fights a year, to enjoy them and have them be part of my training routine. When the UFC came around, it seemed like it fell in my lap. It was like I got so good at my hobby, and now I’m living all these people’s dreams who had been working for so many years.’ – Cat Zingano

‘I’m one of the biggest Ghost Rider fans ever. He’s been a hobby of mine ever since I was seven years old. I actually have a whole room in my house dedicated to Ghost Rider memorabilia.’ – Rob Van Dam

‘If the point of an activity is to be relaxing, changing that point to money isn’t a great idea. Then you have to show up for it differently, and that can take the fun out of it, absolutely. I’m a big fan of turning your hobbies into businesses, but not if it’s the hobby you do to relax and unplug.’ – Jen Sincero

‘During the day, I was a doctor. At night, you know, I was a comic. And it was really just to let off some steam. It just became my golf, you know, in many ways. Most doctors have golf as a hobby. Mine was doing comedy.’ – Ken Jeong

‘I think people choose to be offended by things as a way of bonding, as a hobby. They embed some piece of information into their brain without thinking it through because it’s easier.’ – Mark Kozelek

‘If you are searching to figure out what is true and what is not, you will have a sad life. It means you have too much time, and you should do a hobby – like collecting art.’ – Maurizio Cattelan

‘I felt the pressure to let go of music. I was like, ‘It’s just a hobby. It’s just a dream I’m hanging on to, and my kids don’t deserve having me have trouble taking care of them.” – Walker Hayes

‘Acting was a hobby for me when I started out, or maybe it was because there weren’t a lot of examples of me when I found an interest in this art form.’ – Regina King

‘One thing debating did was bring me in contact with a whole social world that I had never experienced before. It’s sort of a very international, very niche hobby.’ – Sally Rooney

‘After everyone’s gone to bed, I still find myself sitting at the computer writing songs. It’s a nice reminder that this has always been a kind of hobby that I get on with because I really love it.’ – Dan Smith

‘Like so many other bored teens, I was a bored teen with a hobby. The only difference was mine was obsessing about crime.’ – Sarah Weinman

‘It’s bizarre: sometimes I go through periods where I really want to put a song up online, and sometimes I’m sort of busy with other things… It’s very much a hobby, that kind of thing. I sort of post it more for maybe my mom’s benefit, and suddenly she says, ‘It’s got 50,000 views.’ And I think maybe I should’ve put it as private.’ – George Blagden

‘I didn’t have a lot of homies in school when I was young because I was gay and weird and mean, so I went to theater class because I was like, ‘Yo, I need a hobby.” – King Princess

‘Lumped in as a hobby, I don’t really like drawing pictures all that much, but thinking of it as work, it’s the greatest.’ – Akira Toriyama

‘You can’t forget it is a business and not just playing football for a hobby.’ – Thomas Muller

‘For the most part, I would say that I have always had a great love for the sport, just doing what I do. I think my success could be greatly attributed to that. I don’t look at it like it’s a job or anything like that. Its more like a hobby, something I have fun doing.’ – Ronnie Coleman

‘For me, acting is not a hobby. It is a career that I have chosen and was not willing to let go of so easily after seven years of hard work.’ – Vincent Rodriguez III

‘Writing songs used to be my hobby; it used to be my getaway.’ – John Prine

‘Here’s the thing: My hobby is to DJ. I just love music, so I can hear the beginning of a beat, the beginning of a melody, and think of the words, think of the name of the song, think of the hook, and just go there.’ – Jalen Rose

‘I never wanted to be singer. People in my family love music, and I pursued it as a hobby.’ – Parineeti Chopra

‘I never wanted poker to be a job. That’s partly because I love it, and it’s fun, and I didn’t want it to stop being fun, and partly because, I suppose, something in me doesn’t feel right about calling poker a job. It’s not grown-up enough. But it’s a hobby that takes up an enormous amount of my time.’ – Victoria Coren Mitchell

‘I’ve done music as a hobby, either in musical theater or just jamming with friends, pretty much for as long as I can remember.’ – Alissa White-Gluz

‘It turns out having a fast car is an excellent hobby when you’re a workaholic because even when you don’t have any free time, you can always drive to work.’ – Tim Sweeney

‘At the end of the day, we love playing football, so that is the main thing. I am doing something that I really love to do. It is a job, but it is a hobby as well.’ – Jack Rodwell

‘I feel very lucky to be able to call my hobby my job, yet it doesn’t feel like one.’ – Tommy Caldwell

‘Acting was just a hobby; I never needed butter from it.’ – Nana Patekar

‘Acting is just my hobby. When I don’t want to do it, I won’t do it.’ – Nana Patekar

‘I think, since I was a kid, I had that independence of being driven and being motivated in whatever I did, whether school work or a sport or even a hobby.’ – Olivia Holt

‘When I go to different countries, I want to know how to at least say hello and thank you. Language is a great hobby.’ – Cesaro

‘I watch films and TV almost like as a hobby – not even as a hobby: it’s bordering on careerist. It would be easier to tell you what I’m not into than what I am.’ – Jacob Anderson

‘I watch a lot of football. It was always my hobby. My wife just sits there with a bored face, thinking, ‘Is he really watching this?” – David Moyes

‘My hobby is my profession, and therefore, I keep on composing creatively.’ – Himesh Reshammiya

‘I’ve always loved science, but I was never going to make much of a contribution. I’m better off having science as a hobby.’ – Ben Miller

‘Science is a hobby, and I’m really into it, but it’s not my job. My job is to learn about comedy and to make people laugh. Science, for me, is probably a bit like Danny Baker’s love of football or Rod Stewart’s obsession with train sets.’ – Ben Miller

‘I use the Internet a lot – it’s a big hobby of mine, just surfing the Internet.’ – Josephine Langford

‘My granddad had a 1,500-acre hobby farm that he had built up from scratch in Western Australia, so my siblings and I spent our childhoods going there a lot.’ – Tim Minchin

‘For the last few years, I’ve enjoyed writing my own stuff since studying creative writing at school, and as I’ve grown up, I’ve realised how much I enjoy escaping into a world that I’ve created myself. So I’ve kept that up as a hobby.’ – Himesh Patel

‘We currently live in a culture where outrage is a bit of a hobby for some people. If they’re not outraged about something, they’re totally bored.’ – Chris Sullivan

‘When I was a kid, the women like Mia Hamm and Brandi Chastain were paving the way for female players in the States. Things like that are important so girls realise there is a future for them if they want to play. It is something they can aspire to, to be not just a hobby.’ – Karen Bardsley

‘Crafting covers so many areas and over the last few years, we have seen a real boom in the U.K. in terms of people adopting craft as a hobby.’ – Sara Davies

‘I initially moved to Bombay to work in the corporate space. After settling my family here in due course of time, I turned to acting which initially started off as a hobby that I wanted to pursue on the side and then became my profession to sustain my passion around five years back.’ – Anupriya Goenka

‘I started comedy as a hobby, really, and it still doesn’t seem like a proper job.’ – Sara Pascoe

‘My father said, ‘You’re not going to make it.’ That took a lot of pressure from me. I took football like a hobby.’ – Per Mertesacker

‘I’ve been into cars my whole life, I’ve always bought and sold a few here and there on the side, as kind of a hobby.’ – Richard Rawlings

‘My work is my hobby and if I am not on the sets, I am at home with a bunch of very close friends.’ – Akshaye Khanna

‘Anybody that looks at my photography, it blows my mind because it’s my last hobby.’ – Marty Stuart

‘I love business and that’s why I go on other people’s board because it is my hobby. Some people join a tennis club to do things in their spare time. I join boards because that’s what I love.’ – Karren Brady

‘I want to carry on in the music business and in television because it’s basically a hobby and a passion that I actually get paid for.’ – Louis Walsh

‘I’ve been acting since I was a kid and it started out as a hobby. I’ve been lucky enough to make that my professional career and I’ve earned a living out of it.’ – Kelvin Fletcher

‘Movies are a hobby for me. I think storytelling has reached a new level where younger audiences are looking at something more real and contextual.’ – Ronnie Screwvala

‘Theatre has been a sort of hobby. I regret that I am not active, but given my job that is difficult. But those were learning days. The learning curve was the level of confidence, maturity, and reflexes that theatre teaches you is fantastic. You are alone in front of an audience for two hours and that gives you a different kind of confidence.’ – Ronnie Screwvala

‘My hobby is old 4×4’s, you know, old Blazers and Broncos and stuff.’ – Wayne Static

‘Racing is work, so that’s not a hobby.’ – Kyle Busch

‘I’m not too big on stylists. I find it fun just looking for myself, seeing if I can put things together. It’s like a secondary hobby for me.’ – Nick Young

‘As a child I played cricket as a hobby. Once you started playing for your school, you became more ambitious. You reckoned you could play for the state. Then you started to think about the country. But it happened so quickly for me, I started playing for the school at 13, for Bombay at 17, and at 18 I was in the Indian side.’ – Ravi Shastri

‘I just started studying opera – very, very much as hobby – and for some reason I’ve been gravitating toward French composers, like a lot of Debussy and Faure. I find it a really sinuous and spooky language to sing in.’ – Caroline Polachek

‘As a child working in films was like a hobby but now it has turned into a profession. And with that, it’s become a life that’s full of pressure and nervousness about Box Office results, competition.’ – Kunal Khemu

‘I’m a runner by hobby and by nature of stress relief and staying fit.’ – Kate Gosselin

‘When your hobby becomes a full-time job that pays you and the people around you, it’s not fun anymore.’ – Sharon Needles

‘That’s what stress management is about, that’s what psychotherapy is about, finding religion, or finding your loved one or your hobby – any of those, they give you more outlets, more of a sense of control, more of a sense of predictability, of social support. They give you the means to psychologically finesse ambiguous outside reality.’ – Robert Sapolsky

‘This game is a profession now, it’s not a hobby any more. You can earn great money and there are loads of people earning a living out of the game.’ – Rob Cross

‘My paid gigs allow me to pay for my documentaries, like a drug habit, I suppose. If I’m lucky enough to be working steady, however, it leaves little time for the documentary hobby.’ – Robert B. Weide

‘I started off doing stuff in theatre in Letterkenny from quite a young age. It was just a hobby, something I enjoyed. Some kids like tennis or guitar. I just enjoyed musical theatre so my parents got me into classes.’ – Amybeth McNulty

‘I was studying to be a doctor like every good Indian boy, and doing music on the side as a hobby. Then I started to get a little serious and record companies started giving me offers!’ – Jay Sean

‘This is my hobby. Reaching out, getting to know other people’s cultures, traveling to other people’s countries.’ – Masai Ujiri

‘I might do a hobby or go to the movies, but everything comes back to basketball.’ – Brandon Ingram

‘I have only one hobby and that is acting. It’s my passion, my hobby, so I don’t need a break to pursue my hobby.’ – Vishwajeet Pradhan

‘I kind of did mixed martial arts as a hobby. At the time I was actually wanting to become a police officer as I was working in a hospital as a security job in Michigan. It was something I did in my off time.’ – Rashad Evans

‘Quizzing is a family hobby – before I was born my granddad, mum, auntie and uncle were into quizzing.’ – Jenny Ryan

‘I’ve always enjoyed singing as a hobby and an antidepressant.’ – Jenny Ryan

‘I know there are some reasons to suspect me: after all, I have education in computer security and was a hobby hacker in teenage years. But hacking is not my occupation, and I do not have any job within any intelligence, either Russian or some another.’ – Alexandra Elbakyan

‘I got a camera at a very young age, but I always kind of thought of it as a hobby.’ – Ramy Youssef

‘I remember my dad saying to me, ‘But Fiona don’t you want to go and do the dramatic society. You can still do your women’s groups as well.’ And I said, ‘Dad, feminism is a way of life! It’s not a hobby!” – Fiona Bruce

‘I was able to turn my hobby into my profession, and I am thankful for that. But I have other interests beside football, and I can devote my time to them now.’ – Michael Ballack

‘I started comedy as a hobby with no intention of making it my career.’ – Ellie Taylor

‘I was told growing up that the arts were just a hobby – that I couldn’t do it as a career.’ – Mena Massoud

‘I had a very hard-working father and a very hard-working mother. My dad was someone that would get up at 5 in the morning and work ’til 4 in the afternoon and then had a hobby he made money with. After he’d get home, he’d have a meal and have a drink and then flow right into that, trying to provide.’ – Aleister Black

‘I drive something different every day. It’s just my hobby.’ – Scott Storch

‘I just like to eat, buy food, eat food. Eating is my hobby.’ – Nicole Seah

‘When you’re younger, you worry about the sack and getting abuse and things, but when you get to my age, you become less bothered about those things. It becomes more like a hobby and less like life or death.’ – Neil Warnock

‘A lot of wrestlers put on 30 to 40 pounds after they finish wrestling. Some have heart attacks because of the weight. I made working out my hobby.’ – Rocky Johnson

‘When I started out, I was more focussed on being creative and wanting to do certain things I hadn’t done before. That’s great if you’re doing fashion as a hobby. But when you want to sell out stores, you need to be very sure of the balance between commerce and art.’ – Masaba Gupta

‘I love listening to hip-hop and going to concerts with Jerome Boateng; it’s my hobby.’ – David Alaba

‘I started studying counterpoint and theory with a physicist whose hobby was music.’ – Krzysztof Penderecki

‘Living in Baltimore at age 11, I was still not single-focused on tennis. I still played other sports. It was becoming a bigger part of my life, but it was still mainly my summer hobby.’ – Pam Shriver

‘I was in ballet classes, I took singing lessons, I started taking acting classes as a hobby. When I was younger, I had my mind set on dancing or singing.’ – Lexi Underwood

‘Competitive people, especially in sports, want to learn about everything. So when you’re interested in something, you become a bit obsessive. You start to research it and ask questions about it, and before you know it, you have a serious hobby because of how you’re programmed.’ – C. J. McCollum

‘Guitar was just a hobby, but it seemed to me that the instrument had possibilities, not least of which was that there was no one else playing it. I could be, as it were, the best boy in an all-girls school.’ – Julian Bream

‘I started blogging as a hobby, not really thinking anyone would read my site, just my friends.’ – Perez Hilton

‘As art and/or design is often treated strictly as a hobby. But there are many who follow their passion and go ahead with that idea to carve a niche for themselves.’ – Shweta Basu Prasad

‘Sometimes, I sketch, but not every day. I sketch random things, whatever I can get my mind into. I’m not a professional, it is just a hobby I’ve started.’ – Mithali Raj

‘I’m a great listener – I play records all the time at home. And I play guitar as a hobby. So inspiration has never been a big problem for me, but motivation can be a bit difficult sometimes.’ – Rory Gallagher

‘You don’t get stressed if you think your job as a hobby, not as a duty.’ – Henry Lau

‘But I love to fish – that’s a hobby of mine.’ – Avery Bradley

‘The main thing I learned in San Diego was I can’t do this and compete with the best guys in the world if I’m just doing MMA as a hobby. It has to be my job.’ – Alexander Gustafsson

’22 years ago, I walked into the first E3 as a wide-eyed 15-year-old kid who didn’t quite know his place in the world. E3 Expo brought my hobby out of my computer and into mainstream culture.’ – Geoff Keighley

‘I used to love wings. People come up to me and say, ‘Hey, you have to try this hot sauce, let’s go get wings.’ I don’t even want to do that for Key and Peele. This is not a hobby.’ – Sean Evans

‘Tennis has always been my hobby and I love to play but it’s also not a bad way to earn your living and it might help if children knew that.’ – Tim Henman

‘Tennis was my hobby which became my career but it never felt like a job.’ – Tim Henman

‘Some of the early speculation I saw in the press was that I am a rail fan. I’m not. This is not a hobby. This is a full-time business, and a very serious one at that. We’re making this railroad work.’ – Philip Anschutz

‘In my head I want to do dancing as a hobby. I don’t want it to be my job. I want to do it as a joy, not having to do not-very-good galas just to make my living.’ – Sergei Polunin

‘I started watching movies more carefully, watching actors – the way they act, the way the movie is filmed, just as a hobby in a way, but also something to progress to maybe in the future.’ – Sergei Polunin

‘Photography is like oxygen for me. My hobby is my oxygen.’ – Uddhav Thackeray

‘Directing films is my passion and hobby and I’m blessed to have that as my profession and to be loved by the audience for it.’ – Divya Khosla Kumar

‘I think Bengalis would relate to my love for music more than anyone else, as for them, music is not just a hobby, not even a passion, but the way of life.’ – Jubin Nautiyal

‘I love sleep. I find sleep to be a hobby.’ – Jabari Parker

‘I never had a hobby in my whole life until I wag 35. Then I discovered motorcycles, and they’ve now become almost a passion.’ – Ken Berry

‘My hobby is work.’ – Michael G. Rubin

‘Everything I do, it sticks. I move on to a different hobby, but I don’t forget about them. I don’t drop anything.’ – Rory MacDonald

‘Filmmaking is kind of a vain hobby when maybe we should all be taking to the streets. But it seems irresponsible not to be informed by politics in some way.’ – Ryan Fleck

‘I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I was training about six horses. I was feeling the pressure from the folks. You know, ‘When are you going to get a real job?’ I never considered training a profession. It was a hobby.’ – Bob Baffert

‘People would ask me about my hobbies and what I liked. I had never been asked those questions because what I thought didn’t matter. I didn’t know what a hobby was. In North Korea we used ‘we,’ and to say – ‘I like this,’ – was the worst thing you could say.’ – Park Yeon-mi

‘It was many years ago when I started shooting and I took it up as a complete hobby and a pastime.’ – Abhinav Bindra

‘For me, boxing is just a hobby and a science that I enjoy. I enjoy studying it and I’m a fan of the guys that are doing well.’ – Bugzy Malone

‘I was doing drag as just a hobby on the weekends to let my hair down. I never thought of drag was going to be my career and what I would be doing for the rest of my life. Once I made it onto ‘Drag Race,’ I’m like, ‘Oh, OK – this is my calling.’ – Chi Chi DeVayne

‘I’m quite a dreamy person but I’m also very realistic about my possibilities, so if this was meant to remain a hobby I would have kept it as that. But I feel like music goes in waves and when you get an upward swing, you have to push it as far as you can.’ – Arlo Parks

‘Trying to entertain was something I always got a kick from. It excited me quite a lot. Growing up, it was a hobby, always something I did with friends – we’d put on shows.’ – Finn Cole

‘People say that I should never turn my hobby into a career, but I think you need to be passionate enough to do a good job.’ – Zhao Wei

‘I’d been acting as a hobby since I got to the U.K.’ – Rege-Jean Page

‘I never wanted to be an actress. I wanted to go into the medical professional. Acting was not important enough. That was a hobby – nothing to do with what you did in life.’ – June Brown

‘It sounds cheesy, but have a hobby you like. Fill yourself with that, distract yourself, get away from it completely – go hiking, play scary German card games, or create things.’ – Brendan Hunt

‘If you ask me what my hobby is, I don’t have a traditional hobby.’ – Gabe Kapler

‘You’re to the right of Hobby Lobby if you don’t support $15. Hobby Lobby recognized that you got to pay people $15 an hour. So if Hobby Lobby gets it, and you don’t as a Democrat, what’s your problem, you know?’ – John Fetterman

‘Success for me has been turning a hobby into a job and when my kids left school, I did the same for them.’ – Martin Kemp

‘If your hobby is playing sports, at the end of it you might get a few concussions.’ – Tyler Childers

‘If your hobby is hunting, at the end of it you get to eat what you catch, which is awesome.’ – Tyler Childers

‘Baking as a career is very different to baking as a hobby. Business plans are needed and it’s not all plain sailing.’ – John Whaite

‘There was a prison guard that introduced me to pro wrestling and I needed a hobby, so I devoted myself to it – I lived it, ate it and slept it and that’s how I became MVP. So people might think MVP was an overnight success, but I had to travel a long way to get there.’ – Montel Vontavious Porter

‘I do radio shows. I just do what everybody else does – I work on my cars – that’s my hobby. And I like to go out to clubs at night and see what’s going on and, you know, hanging out in New York City.’ – Marky Ramone

‘I sang at school and college festivals in Delhi and won prizes too, but it was just a hobby back then.’ – KK

‘Years ago, we used to take burlesque classes as a hobby.’ – Stassi Schroeder

‘I just want to be on the pitch playing football. It’s my job, it’s my hobby, it’s my life.’ – Andy Carroll

‘I don’t play golf, I like to collect trainers, that’s just my hobby.’ – Darren Bent

‘Long story short, I moved to L.A. from Missouri to work at a salon for about nine years. About halfway through that, I took a class at the Groundlings and fell in love with it. It was a fun hobby!’ – Heidi Gardner

‘I love hunting. It’s part of my life. It’s more of a lifestyle thing than, like, fishing. I look at fishing as more of a pastime and a hobby. But getting to fish with my kids is pretty cool.’ – Jim Miller

‘Snooker’s just a hobby of mine, something I do to keep myself occupied in the afternoons.’ – Rob Burrow

‘I’m an amateur astronomer, and I practice that hobby a lot. And I’m fascinated by hard science. Hard science is something for me that’s absolutely limitless in terms of how much can be learned and how much can be achieved. It’s a pure field of study.’ – Tim Russ

‘I want to work as a hobby.’ – Rimi Sen

‘I really like buying rings for me. Whenever I feel like buying a ring for myself, I buy it. It’s my hobby and also an investment for me.’ – Himanshi Khurana

‘I started making videos as a hobby because I grew up in a village in Wiltshire where there wasn’t a lot to do.’ – Joe Sugg

‘As a fighter, I think I’ve done what I wanted to. It started as a hobby.’ – Nina Nunes

‘I think that’s the secret of a relationship where two people are very busy. Find a way to work together if you can, even if it’s just a hobby – something.’ – Terry Dubrow

‘I love having every hobby come from a place of love and passion.’ – Evan Mock

‘The way I got into fighting was that my brother was training in MMA, and he’d been wanting to introduce me to his new hobby, so I joined the gym with him because, at the time, I was 300 pounds.’ – Khalil Rountree Jr.