Artists usually don’t make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.
All I do is watch TV and films, and when I’m not doing that, I’m making them. I need a hobby!
Acting is just my hobby. When I don’t want to do it, I won’t do it.
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!
Acting is my passion, and Chelsea FC is my hobby.
I’ve always enjoyed singing as a hobby and an antidepressant.
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.
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.
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.
My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.
Music has always been my passion. It was not a hobby or something I can take out of my life.
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.
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.’
I’ve been a writer for 42 years and, yes, it is a full time job for me. Not a hobby, but serious work.
For me, work is both a hobby and a passion. And sometimes an obsession.
I started comedy as a hobby with no intention of making it my career.
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?
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.
Cooking’s my hobby.
I am a very lucky man. I am living my life with my hobby as my profession.
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.
Walking is my hobby, and I’m lucky that I live right on the edge of Hampstead Heath.
I have only one real hobby – my husband.
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.
Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
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.
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.
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.
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!
My hobby is raising my children.
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.
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?’
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Other guys like to go golfing, but music is my hobby.
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.
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.’
I love sleep. I find sleep to be a hobby.
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.
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.
Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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.
Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.
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.
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.
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 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.
I was told growing up that the arts were just a hobby – that I couldn’t do it as a career.
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.
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.
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.
Get a hobby. Maintain your friendships. Hang out with other people.
Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.
If you ask me what my hobby is, I don’t have a traditional hobby.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I did it for a living, made a career out of it, but now I’ve turned it into somewhat of a hobby.
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.
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.
