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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.

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.

Quotes by Helen Gurley Brown

There's nothing sexy about doing a nude scene. It's rather uncomfortable. I like dressing up rather than dressing down.

Quotes by Helen Mirren

When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're not animating. You're not doing the voice on the finished product. You're doing the voice long before.

Quotes by Helen Mirren

People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener.

Quotes by Helen Mirren

When Hubble was launched, it became clear very shortly thereafter that there was a problem with the optics.The mirror was not quite the right shape. And the one program that I had really been looking forward to doing with Hubble...

Quotes by Heidi Hammel

It's clear that the only thing that is inhibiting us from doing further human exploration of space is money and the will to do it.

Quotes by Heidi Hammel

I do regret that when I went to college, I didn't have a liberal arts education. I got a BFA in musical theater, so it was a very directed toward what I was doing. I wish that I had expanded...

Quotes by Heather Dubrow

I like doing yoga. I do yoga three times a week and I do Pilates twice.

Quotes by Heather Graham

The ultimate fun is doing nothing. I like doing nothing with people I like - maybe just eating, hanging out and talking.

Quotes by Heather Graham

Once a week, I spend a day luxuriating in bed. I like staying in my house, pottering around, and maybe cooking or just laying around reading. I love doing yoga and transcendental meditation.

Quotes by Heather Graham

The important thing to understand about eliminating racial preferences in college admissions is that doing so does not lower the number of minority college students, it just redistributes them to schools for which they are actually qualified, rather than catapulting...

Quotes by Heather Mac Donald

Police departments are under enormous political pressure to hire based on race, despite existing efforts to recruit minorities, on the theory that doing so will decrease police shootings of minorities.

Quotes by Heather Mac Donald

Too many high-school graduates are reflexively going to college as it is, without a clue what they are doing there or how to take advantage of higher education.

Quotes by Heather Mac Donald

There's another girl who was going to play Hilary Faye and luckily she wound up not doing it.

Quotes by Heather Matarazzo

I would love to do a musical so hopefully I will be blessed with doing one.

Quotes by Heather Matarazzo

I guess because I'm so young, I m not sure of what lies ahead for me. I'm more into going the route of producing and directing. I just made a little short film. I'm more excited about going the route...

Quotes by Heather Morris

When I was about twenty-five years of age, Professor Sims informed me that I could sing, but added, 'I would like to be at least forty miles away while you are doing it.'

Quotes by Heber J. Grant

I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again.

Quotes by Heath Ledger

When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.

Quotes by Heath Ledger

It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and...

Quotes by Heath Ledger

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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.