- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to trace my own path by doing the things I have been doing, winning titles, reaching goals.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my university years, I was doing a lot of theatre acting. I would be skipping school for rehearsal. We were rehearsing at night - we finished at midnight, and I had to go to school at 8 A.M. It was very tiring.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to do a corkscrew moonsault backwards, so I had the idea of doing it forwards like the shooting star corkscrew, and I was aware no one else did that in wrestling. If I could perfect this technique, it would be unique to me.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was very, very critical of my early efforts. She was, like, 'At your age, the Brontes were doing X, Y, and Z.'
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason nobody investigates the men who are trading off our freedoms for private enrichment is that they are the very ones who are doing the investigating.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first film that I can remember seeing where, like, I just couldn't stop watching it - and it didn't necessarily make me want to be a director because I was so young, but it made me know that that's what I wanted to be doing - was 'Alien.' And I saw that when I was probably just over 10 years old.
- Hates
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad hates doing PR, so I volunteered to do this for him.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, not knowing what you're doing allows you to do things you never knew you could do.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't have to let a bad experience stop you from doing what you want to do.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't see myself doing slapstick movies or being a part of them, even if they get the box office ringing. It's not my space; I haven't reached that point.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it's cross-country ski season, I'll be out doing that, or snowshoeing up in Quebec. In my California home, I go to the local Y and I like doing yoga. It's been hugely beneficial to me in injury avoidance.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
On 'Scrubs,' I played a very unusual character who pretty much was defined by saying and doing strange things, so it was easy to improvise around that.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out.
- Debilitating
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- Nov 07, 2020