I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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.
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.
My singing is my hobby. It’s me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.
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.
In the U.S. and Europe, there has been a lot of creative hobby innovation, and that’s great.
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.
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.
Baking as a career is very different to baking as a hobby. Business plans are needed and it’s not all plain sailing.
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.
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.
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.
So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.
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.
Television is the most interesting hobby I’ve ever had.
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.
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.
The music stuff is just a hobby.
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.
I might do a hobby or go to the movies, but everything comes back to basketball.
When Hobby Lobby was created in the early 1970s, I was committed to use profits to help ministry work.
If your hobby is hunting, at the end of it you get to eat what you catch, which is awesome.
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.
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.
Working out is my biggest hobby. It’s my Zen hour. I just zone out.
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.
Music to me is something I did as a hobby.
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.
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.
Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I started comedy as a hobby, really, and it still doesn’t seem like a proper job.
If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody’s hobby.
It’s a hobby for me, but I’m never alone if there’s a guitar there.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I do destroy men on a weekly basis. It’s like a hobby. I’m like a praying mantis.
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.
Everything I do, it sticks. I move on to a different hobby, but I don’t forget about them. I don’t drop anything.
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.
I always did music privately as a hobby, I think partly because I was nervous to do it in front of other people.
Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics.
Shopping is a bit of a relaxing hobby for me, which is sometimes troubling for the bank balance.
As soon as you take your hobby and make it into your profession, it sort of kills it as a hobby.
I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.
TV was my hobby. I loved the glitz. I loved how hot everybody was.
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.
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.
I’ve always done magic as a hobby. I’ve done it professionally, too.
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.
I do the things I like to do. It’s sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby.
My hobby first and foremost is collecting automobiles. I have a fairly nice, finished 6,500-square-foot structure that I call my garage.
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.
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?
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
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.
Dance is a very disciplining career or hobby. I was disciplined at an early age.
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.
