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.
It just tends to be that the grass is always greener. If I'm doing a movie, I suddenly think, 'Oh God, I wish I could just get a play script I could get my teeth into.' If I'm doing eight...
I was doing a movie, 'Diana,' and I pulled aside the guy who was making the nose for Naomi Watts and said, 'I'm about to do 'Cyrano.' So he did various Photoshops of different looks that might work. I was...
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When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the other illusionists could even figure out what I was doing, let alone try to imitate me.
A heck of a lot more accountability comes from individuals or the church doing it than the government, that signs off on helping people at 5 o'clock, because it comes from the heart, not from a badge or a mandate.
I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.
Not that I don't care about winning or I don't care about doing well, but I have to care less about the things that happen that are outside of my control.
Everybody's doing it. When I'm performing and I do the Dougie, the fans lose their minds.
I have new music coming out. I'm working on some television shows. I still do a tremendous amount of concerts. I'm doing my restaurant. I got a club coming in New York. The restaurant is called Doug E. The club...
Doing what you thought was right for the country, rather than what was politically expedient, seems almost as quaint now as having civil disagreements with those whose viewpoints differ from your own.
You want to make sure you're aware of who's dealing with your money, what it's doing, and how you can save.
What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.
At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.
My PhD project was actually doing something that required a high-intensity laser. It was supposed to work in a way that many, many photons of light would interact with an atom all at the same time.
Maria Goeppert-Mayer, you know, she didn’t even get paid to be a scientist. And yet, she was doing Nobel Prize-winning work. How ridiculous is that?
We read to our kids at bedtime because we want to have literacy, but what are we doing to make sure kids are equally fascinated by science?
Doing a movie is a stressful thing. You spend months of you life focusing into that one project, and I want to make sure I do something I really like or I'm really passionate about.
Celebrities can suffer a horrible loneliness even though they have millions of fans. I started doing meditations because I realized that a spiritual path was necessary.
I never considered myself an entertainer. I always felt I had to be connected to something meaningful, or it wasn't worth doing.
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Also see our Doing Good quotes for a values-driven angle, or Doers quotes celebrating people who take action.
