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.
Skydiving is a rush. Doing it naked could be more of a rush, but it's nothing I would ever consider.
Before I started doing '30 Rock', I did about 25 movies. I'd always been doing stand-up every night, and then I would do, like, two to four movies a year. So I really liked doing that, and I want to...
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Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most.
When I'm not filming anything or on the road doing stand-up, I'm usually doing stand-up shows every night - usually a few shows a night at different clubs in the city.
Sometimes '30 Rock' was a struggle because I'd be doing the show and still be doing stand-up full-time.
I've been doing stand-up just about every night since I started in 1989. It's my home base. But I'm into doing comedy in all mediums, platforms and situations.
I started doing my own animated movies when I was in ninth grade; that's when I got the filmmaking bug. When I was about 16, I started writing jokes for doing stand up, and then I was 19 and started...
There's a lot of actors that I admire because they can just switch one second into the character. Then, they go back to jokes, and then they're doing something really dramatic. I can't do that. I have to really focus.
I've always tried to stay away from doing remixes to songs that were popular, because too many people do that. But that's something the fans want to hear, me over those type of beats. So I do it for them.
Punk is all about doing what you want and being yourself. And that's what rap is too.
Little by little, when I was doing auditions in New York, I discovered I was good. People there were enthusiastic.
A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.
It's tricky when you're doing a recording, because the only weapon you have is your voice and the delivery of that voice. You don't have a gesture or a facial expression, there are no costumes or set pieces. Everything needs...
I made all sorts of things: drawings, sculptures - I was doing origami before I even knew the word. I was constantly creating.
For this game, we shot it just like it as if it was a film so there wasn't that much different from doing a film other than some technical things for the costume that had to be done so they...
I'll cop to this: so much of doing a 22-episode show is just keeping your head above water.
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Also see our Doing Good quotes for a values-driven angle, or Doers quotes celebrating people who take action.
