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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.

I'd rather spend my Sunday doing just about anything other than watching a football game - unless it's the Super Bowl.

Quotes by Katie Lee

I'm very quiet. I can go a whole week without talking, so doing interviews is really awkward for me!

Quotes by Katie Leung

It's not an understatement to say that I owe everything as an actor to 'Merlin.' It was pretty much my first job, and I didn't know what I was doing for many years on it. It wasn't until the third...

Quotes by Katie McGrath

I'm enjoying doing research, to get better at the guitar, to get better at rhyming. That's an essential skill.

Quotes by Katie Melua

I don't want to be an ambassador for too many charities, because it's a far stronger message to be a person with a disfigurement going about their life doing everyday things.

Quotes by Katie Piper

I do enjoy doing both film and television.

Quotes by Katie Cassidy

McDermott and two colleagues - James H. Fowler of the University of California, San Diego, and Nicholas A. Christakis of Harvard University - published a paper titled 'Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Unless Everyone Else is Doing it Too.'...

Quotes by Katie Hafner

Immigration customs enforcement is a role that makes sense. We have to have something that is doing that.

Quotes by Katie Hill

The public is going to be looking for examples of immaturity or inexperience or whatever it might be, but I think that's where we have to prove what we're capable of doing from a policy standpoint and from a leadership...

Quotes by Katie Hill

I like doing yoga; I like running and cycling - just staying active. And I love a facial.

Quotes by Katie Holmes

I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.

Quotes by Kathy Griffin

It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president.

Quotes by Kathy Najimy

Every now and then, a lot of bands doing the same kind of music will organically sprout up at once.

Quotes by Kathy Valentine

I'm friends with Carla Olsen and she's doing a lot of producing these days. She's getting quite a little collection of records that she's produced. She's real busy.

Quotes by Kathy Valentine

If you have to do it, then you're doing the right thing.

Quotes by Kathy Valentine

I'm a huge fan of a lot of different genres of music, and I really felt like somehow I had been pigeonholed a little bit - maybe of my own doing - and in a way where I felt like...

Quotes by Kathleen Edwards

I really get that some people like the roots-rock, storytelling thing that I was doing, and I'm proud of that.

Quotes by Kathleen Edwards

I was making stickers for guys' bands. I was in the front row photographing bands, booking bands, doing all of the kind of backstage stuff, and I didn't even think for a second I could do it, and then I...

Quotes by Kathleen Hanna

When you're relegated to go from movie to movie, so much of what you're doing is out of your control beyond creating the product.

Quotes by Kathleen Kennedy

I think everyone can relate to the idea of making a bad choice - and knowing it's a bad choice - but doing it anyway.

Quotes by Kathleen Robertson

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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.