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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted to write had nothing to do with what he was doing.
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I haven't got an old man's brain. I have got a sharp mind and enjoy doing what I do.
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One of the problems with 'SNL' is that, if you tried to adlib, the director would put you off camera and off the mic, so only you would know that you ever did it. The director always directed to the script; he wasn't listening to what you were doing. He was calling shots whilst looking at the page.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find ambition really attractive too - if someone's good at something they love doing. I want someone who is driven.
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I thought there might be a career in acting because I had other friends doing it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote 'Ain't It Cool? Hollywood's Redheaded Stepchild Speaks Out,' because in doing hundreds and hundreds of interviews over the past six and a half years, I was tired of the story being half told or a third told or erroneously told.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having chosen something worth doing, never give up, and try not to let anyone down.
- Experience
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I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.
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The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
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The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
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- Nov 07, 2020