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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.

Its really important to have cooperative co-actors when you're working and specially when you are doing a daily soap.

Quotes by Erica Fernandes

We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living.

Quotes by Erich Hoeber

When I first started doing work on how the Internet is affecting commerce, like a lot of people, I was really excited by this nearly perfect market.

Quotes by Erik Brynjolfsson

Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing.

Quotes by Erik Erikson

I support an assault weapons ban, and I'll tell you why. We already have one in California, so I don't support doing anything above what we do in California.

Quotes by Eric Swalwell

I always have a rough outline, but I'm shocked at how little I actually follow it. Those characters keep doing things that I never expected. I think if I crept up to my keyboard and peeked, they'd be talking about...

Quotes by Eric Walters

For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

Quotes by Eric Whitacre

If you can't think like an onion or a carrot or a tomato, you may be a technician, but you won't understand what you're doing, and your dish will be flat.

Quotes by Eric Ripert

I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.

Quotes by Eric Schmidt

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

Quotes by Eric Schmidt

Even though Google may do very well, there will always be an alternative to what Google is doing, and people will always have the free choice... because there's no way for us to prevent them from exercising that choice. That...

Quotes by Eric Schmidt

I'm interested in doing movies I wouldn't normally be interested in doing.

Quotes by Eric Stoltz

I probably became an actor because of my vivid imagination, and doing voice-over really sort of takes me back to that.

Quotes by Eric Stonestreet

I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district if I actually think what I am doing is going to be helpful.

Quotes by Eric Massa

I'm doing a very funny show in which we talk about issues. I speak at Aids charities and things. It's great to do something fun with our days and yet we're told we're doing something important.

Quotes by Eric McCormack

I did 'The Commish' and an episode of 'Neon Rider,' and then I got the series called 'Street Justice,' which I ended up doing about 18 episodes of.

Quotes by Eric McCormack

If the main contribution that Christians make to culture is complaining about it, we're doing something wrong.

Quotes by Eric Metaxas

I played a ton of special teams at LSU. I'm familiar with it, I'm comfortable doing it.

Quotes by Eric Reid

You'll do anything for your child and that's what I'm doing.

Quotes by Eric Reid

If I hear that Quito, Ecuador, is doing something to have a whole area of town that's zero emissions, and we're thinking about that in Los Angeles' downtown, I'm like, 'I better catch up.'

Quotes by Eric Garcetti

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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.