31 Movie Quotes about Doing What You Love (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Oct 4, 2025

Memorable quotes about doing what you love, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Go, live your dream. -I will. -Your dream stinks, I was talking to her.

Brad Garrett in Tangled

2 You see, in every job that must be done there is an element of fun. You find the fun, and snap! The job's a game.

Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins

3 Find your humanity. Haven't any of you ever had a dream?

Mandy Moore as Rapunzel in Tangled

4 Oh, a man should have his dreams, but a man has to learn to put those dreams to some practical use, not just sit around and think about them all the time.

Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

5 Bastian! Why don't you do what you dream, Bastian?

The Childlike Empress in The NeverEnding Story (1984)

6 When you're racing, it's... It's life. Anything that happens before or after, it's just waiting.

Steve McQueen as Michael Delaney in Le Mans (1971)

7 Do you receive a salary for your work? -No. I'm doing it for love.

Gloria Grahame as Laurel Gray in In a Lonely Place

8 I'd wake up at night with the smell of the ballpark in my nose, with the cool of the grass on my feet, the thrill of the grass.

Ray Liotta as Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams (1989)

9 Man, I did love this game. I'd have played for food money. It was the game, the sounds, the smells.