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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 hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.

Quotes by Edgar Winter

I started doing flats because women would always apologize for wearing them when they met me, as if they had to be in heels when meeting a shoe designer.

Quotes by Edgardo Osorio

Once the second season of 'Haven' rolled around, I really started to attack this acting thing and finally admitted, 'OK, I'm an actor now. This is what I'm doing. This is my new career.'

Quotes by Edge

I like to be doing something creative.

Quotes by Edge

I've been urged by people forever to try and start a real Rock Hall of Fame. I've had some very, very preliminary discussions about doing it. Obviously, I can't do it myself, but there are a lot of people interested...

Quotes by Eddie Trunk

I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had...

Quotes by Eddie Van Halen

Everything I did is because I wanted to do it. If I weren't playing this arena, if I were playing a club, I'd still be doing it because that's what I want to do. I love playing the guitar.

Quotes by Eddie Van Halen

I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.

Quotes by Eddie Van Halen

Yes, I'm doing damage to my body now. The human body isn't designed to be this size.

Quotes by Eddie Hall

If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.

Quotes by Eddie Izzard

I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do...

Quotes by Eddie Marsan

I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.

Quotes by Eddie Murphy

Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.

Quotes by Eddie Redmayne

Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas...

Quotes by Eddie Redmayne

When you're doing a film that has so many effects, you do a lot of it on green screen, and you can't see what that world is.

Quotes by Eddie Redmayne

For a year after I left Cambridge, I had an agent, and I was working in a pub and doing waitering. But I could stay at home rent-free.

Quotes by Eddie Redmayne

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

Quotes by Eddie Rickenbacker

The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some...

Quotes by Eddie Rickenbacker

If you're passionate enough you can restore anything but it depends whether you're doing it to try and make money or just because you're crazy about it.

Quotes by Edd China

I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

Quotes by Eddie Bernice Johnson

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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.