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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.

Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I've made up to that point.

Quotes by Josh Lucas

'Memorial Day' is about 'spring break' girls-gone-wild culture which is the seedy underbelly of our American Puritanism, the inverse side of the coin. It's also about how we forcefully exported that culture and then pretended to not know what we...

Quotes by Josh Fox

I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov plays. It's about delivering on the promise of a $100,000 education and taking the shackles off and trying...

Quotes by Josh Gad

When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.

Quotes by Josh Gad

In my early years doing standup, I bombed a lot.

Quotes by Josh Gondelman

For many comedians, two common anxiety triggers include performing in front of family members and doing brand new material.

Quotes by Josh Gondelman

I played sports because I think it's mandatory in the greater Boston area regardless of your aptitude. It's like, well, what else would you be doing?

Quotes by Josh Gondelman

When I started out doing comedy, I was still in college and was working day jobs. I taught preschool for a few years. And then I got more into freelance writing. So stand-up has always been my primary independent creative...

Quotes by Josh Gondelman

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

Quotes by Joseph Wambaugh

If I'm doing an editorial or if I'm doing a shoot, I will wear anything, and I'll do anything.

Quotes by Josephine Langford

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Quotes by Josh Billings

I want to do films that challenge me. I want to do what the actors I look up to are doing - the Gary Oldmans and Daniel Day-Lewises.

Quotes by Josh Bowman

I was invited to a couple of races, but I was doing a play in New York.

Quotes by Josh Brolin

I remember at the premiere of my second movie I started crying. I thought, I'm so bad that I either have to stop this and do something else or learn what I'm doing.

Quotes by Josh Brolin

The idea of using actual clippings came about as a way of characterizing Gold. Gold uses clippings because he hates doing research and is not even really interested in the books and articles he writes.

Quotes by Joseph Heller

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

Quotes by Joseph de Maistre

I think my formative experiences were really in junior high, where at a typical public school we were doing little genetic experiments, very classic experiments.

Quotes by Joseph DeRisi

The work that Google is doing in China is indirectly benefiting the Chinese military. Indirect may not be a full characterization of the way it is. It's more of a direct benefit to the Chinese military.

Quotes by Joseph Dunford

What we are doing in the Pacific is we're flying, operating, and sailing wherever international law allows, and the purpose of that is to demonstrate that we are standing up for those rules.

Quotes by Joseph Dunford

I've been around doing a little of this and a little of that.

Quotes by Joseph Force Crater

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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.