Sitting on a corporate board is a hobby for me.
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.
Racing is work, so that’s not a hobby.
I was always interested in cooking; it was always a hobby of mine.
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.
When I go to different countries, I want to know how to at least say hello and thank you. Language is a great hobby.
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.
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.
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.’
This is my hobby. Reaching out, getting to know other people’s cultures, traveling to other people’s countries.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My hobby is work.
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.
My work is my hobby and if I am not on the sets, I am at home with a bunch of very close friends.
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.
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.
Poker is just a hobby I’m passionate about. It’s not supposed to bring glory.
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.
Hobby Lobby has always been a tool for the Lord’s work.
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.
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.’
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.
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.
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.
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.
I don’t think there’s a hobby that I haven’t tried on.
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.
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.
I only work on my books at nights and at weekends. It is really just like a hobby.
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.
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.
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.
Beware the hobby that eats.
I grew up in a very musical family, but music was not encouraged as a career. It was a hobby.
Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it’s been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life.
Success for me has been turning a hobby into a job and when my kids left school, I did the same for them.
I’m really into acquiring film paraphernalia – that’s my hobby. I love old movie posters, cameras and film reels.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My only hobby is going for walks outdoors.
I never wanted to be singer. People in my family love music, and I pursued it as a hobby.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My parents separated it, and that let me know that TV life wasn’t my normal life; that was my job and my hobby.
Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.
I have been playing games since I was about 6, and they’ve always been a big hobby of mine.
I don’t want to put any pressure on the music; it’s my hobby and my release – a thing that I love.
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.
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.
I started studying counterpoint and theory with a physicist whose hobby was music.
The writing became a hobby in the background: it took a back seat to parenthood and being a person and being a human being.
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.’
