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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.

My guilty fear is that what I'm doing, probably anyone could do. And that I just got a lot of lucky breaks.

Quotes by Louis Theroux

When you don't have access to a subject, and all you have is ex-members and critics, there is this gravitational pull toward telling a certain version of events. Scientology would say this, and they have a point, that it's like...

Quotes by Louis Theroux

You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right.

Quotes by Louis Tomlinson

It has been an honor to manage such a magnificent club as Manchester United FC, and in doing so, I have fulfilled a long-held ambition.

Quotes by Louis van Gaal

You can always spot the professionals. Taylor Swift, she knows what she's doing.

Quotes by Louis Walsh

If a role isn't different, it's not worth doing.

Quotes by Louis Gossett, Jr.

'Captain America' I love, and that would be great, but c'mon, a Frenchman doing 'Captain America?' They would burn my passport.

Quotes by Louis Leterrier

I am 33 years old, and what can I have been doing that I still am in a muddle? But everyone else is, too; maybe our muddles are concurrent.

Quotes by Louis MacNeice

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Quotes by Louis D. Brandeis

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

Quotes by Lou Reed

There's no statute of limitations on doing what's right.

Quotes by Louie Gohmert

I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.

Quotes by Lou Doillon

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Quotes by Lou Holtz

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Quotes by Lou Holtz

I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right...

Quotes by Lou Rawls

Once I'm on the phone, I just can't say no. I sometimes find myself doing things for three or four organizations in one day.

Quotes by Lorraine Hansberry

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

Quotes by Lorraine Toussaint

I used to take circus lessons. I dreamt of being picked up in the street because they saw me doing something circus-like.

Quotes by Lotte Verbeek

I made an enormous amount of money in the record business as a result of owning so much of what I was doing... I owned all those albums and continued to own my catalog.

Quotes by Lou Adler

To be doing interviews in 2006 for a band I was kicked out of in 1989 - a band that I never thought I would play for again - in a way, it's weird.

Quotes by Lou Barlow

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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.