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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 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.

Quotes by Jamie xx

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...

Quotes by Jamie Dornan

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.

Quotes by Jamie Dornan

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.

Quotes by Jamie Hewlett

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.

Quotes by Jamie Hewlett

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...

Quotes by Jamie Hyneman

I like doing interviews. I really do.

Quotes by Jamie Kennedy

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.

Quotes by Jamey Sheridan

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...

Quotes by James Watkins

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.

Quotes by James Welch

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...

Quotes by James Wolk

I started out doing theater in N.Y.C.

Quotes by James Van Der Beek

I just feel so upset when I think of all the lost years when I could have been doing stand-up gigs.

Quotes by James Veitch

You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.

Quotes by James Sinegal

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.

Quotes by James Spader

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.

Quotes by James Surowiecki

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

Quotes by James Reston

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.

Quotes by James Roday

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...

Quotes by James Roday

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.

Quotes by James Salter

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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.