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 always just experiment with different sounds and styles until I find something that evokes the feeling I'm going for. I'm not trying to think too much about what anyone else is doing.
I've always needed to bulk up, so until the modeling took off I was ramming Big Macs down my throat and doing plenty of bodyweight work. I'm over the Big Macs now, but I'll still drop down and do my...
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Every role is physical to a certain extent, but as a viewer, I don't respond well to actors doing more than they need to tell a story.
When I'm working on something, if I went to an exhibition of an artist I respect, then I usually come home quite depressed and look at what I'm doing and throw it all away and start again.
It's not that I never do interviews or that I find them traumatic. It's just that I'm basically not that comfortable doing them.
As it turns out, one of the biggest choices we have doing the show is deciding the tangents we are allowed to take, the stuff that we see along the way. We're allowed to explore the world at large on...
I worked at the New York Civil Liberties Union as a starving actor in the early '80s. I was in love with what they were doing.
The first series of 'McMafia' is very Alex Godman-centric and could continue to be, but we haven't even begun to explore the Middle East or Africa or even South America in detail. One of our ambitions would be to drop...
The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions.
In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to...
I just feel so upset when I think of all the lost years when I could have been doing stand-up gigs.
You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.
I've had a lazy career. Sometimes one film a year, sometimes none. I'm walking around in the street and doing this other thing, living, that I'm much more interested in. I just do some acting on the side.
Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there. In some European countries, businesses were even allowed to deduct bribes as an expense.
Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.
I think what we do is fairly unique on 'Psych,' and we just have to keep doing that because that's what got us where we are.
As soon as I knew we were going to be doing tribute episodes, and as soon as I knew the landscape of 'Psych' allowed us to do homages, the show creator and I both had respective dreams. His was a...
I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.
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Also see our Doing Good quotes for a values-driven angle, or Doers quotes celebrating people who take action.
