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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.

The fact that I'm still able to wrestle on the indies and yet still do my stuff in NXT, and the fact that I wrestled in front of 15,000 people at the Barclays Center at TakeOver, and then, the following...

Quotes by Johnny Gargano

It started with Dragon Gate USA, where I started as a guy on the pre-show and wasn't promised anything. I kept coming and doing what I do and ended up on the main show and eventually won their championship.

Quotes by Johnny Gargano

Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.

Quotes by Johnny Isakson

Everything you see on screen is real. By doing what we do, there's naturally going to be a lot of grimacing. And whimpering.

Quotes by Johnny Knoxville

I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading.

Quotes by John Zorn

I run around, I listen to a lot of music, go to a lot of concerts. And when I see someone that gases me, I try to go out of my way to involve them somehow in what I'm doing...

Quotes by John Zorn

I was going to hang it up on the twenty-fifth year of this show. I don't know why. Maybe twenty-five years is enough. And I found out that I was having so much fun doing the show that we decided...

Quotes by Johnny Carson

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

Quotes by Johnny Depp

As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.

Quotes by John Williams

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Quotes by John Wooden

People stopped hanging out with me at the point when I stopped doing drugs. All of a sudden they didn't wanna hang out with me anymore. And I would have hung out with them. I mean they were killing themselves,...

Quotes by John Wozniak

Well, when I was younger, in high school, I started out smoking pot. Which escalated into taking acid on a regular basis, which escalated into selling acid. And then I started, when I went to college, I started doing opiates.

Quotes by John Wozniak

I didn't graduate. I was doing theater in Michigan the summer after my junior year and just moved on to New York.

Quotes by John Wesley Shipp

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Quotes by John W. Gardner

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

Quotes by John W. Gardner

In a personal context, I'm not in the ground, and I'm not in an institution. So I guess I'm doing pretty good.

Quotes by John Trudell

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

Quotes by John Updike

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

Quotes by John Updike

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.

Quotes by John T. Flynn

I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better.

Quotes by John Stossel

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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.