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.
There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn't know who I was; I didn't know really what I was doing here. I...
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I spent my late twenties and all of my thirties figuring out what I was supposed to be doing and where my home was.
I was doing well in TV as a freelance cameraman, but it wasn't the direction I wanted to go in. I directed videos and tried to put something cinematic in every one. Dialogue, action sequences, helicopter, Steadicam.
Hip hop has been an integral part of my life and my whole career. I started off doing videos with Ice Cube and Dre and Mary J. Blige and TLC.
I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.
If the fans are liking what I've been doing, and they want to create a song for me, let's get on with it!
I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.
I turned down plenty of films which proved to be hugely successful. And, of course, I've also had plenty of experiences where everyone thought we were doing brilliant work and it ended up pretty horrific. Same as any actor, really.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
People always brand me as this person who is anti-Brady, and I don't think that I ever have been, except that occasionally I would like to talk about something else that I'm doing.
I think these shows with the young kids doing these jumps, doing these fantastic back flips, I think they're absolutely great. They did what I never did.
I think, at some point, there's only so much you can draw from within without getting inspired from what's around you and what other people are doing.
On the stage, you enter into a bond with the audience, and you can sense they are moved by what you're doing. It's a sweet return.
I certainly had a lot of fun during my career playing tennis, doing the thing I wanted to do and to do it well.
I guess I had that insecurity of missing out on the normal things that everybody else does. With all the traveling I was doing I felt I was leaving something behind.
Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living.
If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra - they're all powerful women, but they're forces of negativity.
There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.
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Also see our Doing Good quotes for a values-driven angle, or Doers quotes celebrating people who take action.
