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Doing Quotes

On action, effort and the discipline of doing the work.

These lines describe doing in its many forms: the overlap between film and television production, the uncertainty built into research, and committing to work you believe in even without much recognition. For more, see our Action quotes.

Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out.

Quotes by Marian McPartland

Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly went bankrupt and Gibson bought the whole outfit. Since then they haven't seemed to be doing an awfully...

Quotes by Marian McPartland

I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.

Quotes by Marian Wright Edelman

I am always most excited about the newest material I am doing, and other songs get put back on the shelf or dropped.

Quotes by Maria Muldaur

I don't worry about what my opponent is doing.

Quotes by Maria Sharapova

I'm focused on going out every day and doing my best.

Quotes by Maria Sharapova

I'm always on the go. I love doing things until I hit rock bottom. Then I need my 12 hours of sleep, and I'm on the go again.

Quotes by Maria Sharapova

But as a reporter, that’s how you know you’re doing a good job - when no one’s talking about you. And something has gone wrong if they are.

Quotes by Maria Taylor

Unlike Etsy, which is all handmade, we print and ship the products, not the designers. We relieve the designer from having to make and ship everything, package it, and provide customer service. All the designer has to do is submit...

Quotes by Mariam Naficy

Acting is something that I really love when I am doing it, as it is interesting and fun to pretend to be someone else, but I don't ever miss it when I am not doing it.

Quotes by Maria Doyle Kennedy

The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature.

Quotes by Maria Montessori

I'm doing my work in an environment that's ultimately about dollars and cents.

Quotes by Marguerite Moreau

Far from being dominated by ideas from Paris and New York, Latin American artists were often the innovators. They were doing drip paintings in advance of Pollock, creating language art before the American conceptualists, and fashioning shaped canvases decades before...

Quotes by Mari Carmen Ramirez

Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.

Quotes by Maria Bamford

Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder...

Quotes by Maria Bartiromo

I'm proud to be a hard working actress; it's what I've always loved to do and I'm so happy and proud to still be doing it.

Quotes by Maria Canals Barrera

I'm definitely looking forward to doing a film one day with more female actors.

Quotes by Margot Robbie

If I saw and if I really sincerely thought that what Putin is doing is harmful for my country and for my people and it needs to be stopped, I wouldn't hesitate to do that.

Quotes by Margarita Simonyan

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

Quotes by Margaret Mead

I don't really know what I'm doing, to be honest. I come up with things, and maybe it works, and maybe it doesn't, and I try to learn from my castmates and director and from everyone.

Quotes by Margaret Qualley

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does "doing" mean across these quotes?
The quotes use "doing" to describe the actual craft of working (film vs. TV production), following through on belief in your own work, playing certain kinds of roles, and even the nature of research itself.
Is there a quote comparing film and TV work?
Yes: "When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces." For more on taking action rather than just planning, see Action.
Is there a witty quote about research here?
Yes: "Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing" is a short, self-aware take on the research process.
Does this page include anything about acting roles or casting?
Yes, one quote describes being cast more often as a villain-type ("more Iago than Hamlet") while insisting the real goal is playing people doing the right thing rather than simple villains. For more on positive action, see Doing Good.
Is there a quote about believing in your own work despite doubt?
Yes, one recalls finding award shows hard to watch early in a music career, "because I believed in what I was doing" even while unsure of having a real shot. For more short, punchy takes on getting things done, see Doin or Doers.

Also see our Doing Good quotes for a values-driven angle, or Doers quotes celebrating people who take action.