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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 first started doing service, actually, as a kid, doing service projects. Later in college, I started doing international humanitarian work that brought me to places like Bosnia, Rwanda.

Quotes by Eric Greitens

We never did a lot of weights, but a lot of repetitions. The most I would use doing squats was 300 pounds.

Quotes by Eric Heiden

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

Quotes by Eric Hoffer

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

Quotes by Eric Hoffer

I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing...

Quotes by Eric Idle

I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.

Quotes by Eric Idle

The best thing about doing those Hallmark movies is my dad loves them. My dad watches all of those Christmas movies, not just ones I'm in. He watches them all, so the first one I did, it was like my...

Quotes by Eric Johnson

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.

Quotes by Eric Bogosian

Ever since I've been 16, 15, that's all I've been doing: playing darts.

Quotes by Eric Bristow

I was doing auditions and meetings during the day and going to culinary school at night. And then 'NCIS' happened. So I dropped out of culinary school.

Quotes by Eric Christian Olsen

I played 15 years of hockey, and I got more injured doing two weeks of cheer camp.

Quotes by Eric Christian Olsen

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on...

Quotes by Eric Clapton

I like lifting weights. And there is a cardio element to lifting if you're doing it the way I do it.

Quotes by Eric Dane

I loved doing 'Grey's Anatomy.'

Quotes by Eric Dane

I studied science and journalism at the University of Colorado and then got interested in experimental film there and started doing my own films.

Quotes by Eric Darnell

Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.

Quotes by Eric Allin Cornell

Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.

Quotes by Eric Alterman

It's funny - almost every comedian that I started out with moved to L.A., except for my two friends Hannibal Buress and Amy Schumer. And my two friends that are doing the best in comedy, the most successful friends I...

Quotes by Eric Andre

I just didn't like the idea of doing reunions, period. I could only see it as I'd just be going over the same old ground. I'm only years older and fatter and I'll just do an older, fatter version of...

Quotes by Eric Avery

The question was, 'Is there a way of minimizing the amount of damage you're doing so that you can then study cells in a physiological manner while also studying them at high spatial and temporal resolution for a long time?'

Quotes by Eric Betzig

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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.