Doing Quotes

I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.

I think when you first get a job, you're just trying to do what the last regime did, just to keep it going, as opposed to actually doing what you want to do.

I'm far more relaxed with German. I'm a control freak. I like to know exactly who's saying and doing what.

Those that pulled my credential were actually doing me a favor. I was given a pass to leave an event that already had me feeling uneasy and uncomfortable in my career choice.

I like to take a break, but at the same time, I think most actors are not very good at sitting around doing nothing because we like to work.

I've always wanted to improve and expand on the good name of my weapon by doing good things.

Don't ever squeeze a fighter's hand, man. You're doing good just to lay your eyes on me

Since I won't let the critics seal my fate, they keep hollering I'm full of hate. But they don't really hurt me none, 'cause I'm doing good and having fun.

If I kept my mouth shut, because I can make millions, that isn't doing nothing.

To do anything, it is first necessary to be doing nothing.

There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen.

I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored.

When you're playing something, hopefully, if you're doing your best, you're advocating for your character and you're not trying to think too much.

When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.

The ideal is to create a completely fragmented atomized society where everybody is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created wants, and the wants are created.

You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?

Linda's at her best when she's doing you a meal at home. That's when you see Linda. She cooks, she looks after the kids.

There was a certain amount of discipline, I think; my parents wanted to be sure that I was not just sitting around doing nothing.

What you do for yourself, you're doing for others, and what you do for others, you're doing for yourself.

We must act now to make sure fresh water is available to everyone, no matter where they live. The consequences of doing nothing will be even more catastrophic.

Anything we do to fight misery and ignorance and poverty, no matter how imperfect it may be, is still better than doing nothing at all.

I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing.

I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people have not so much merit as they lead us to suppose.

I've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day.

And learn the luxury of doing good.

I know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you better.

None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.

By doing good, we do well.

Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.

At one time they've been the most important thing to me. So I can't hear our records on the radio, I can't stand it, because they sound so out of what everyone else is doing.

Screwing business as usual fundamentally recognises that doing good is good for business.

Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.

The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

Oh God. She probably thinks we were off doing—you know—romantic type, um, things—

Being right wasn't nearly as important as doing right.

I'm really, really enjoying myself, I seem to have a lot of purpose in my life. I'm enjoying what I'm doing, you know, and people are liking it. So, it's great, you know.

The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing you.

If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.

There's no such thing as the very best. If you're doing your best, it's only because you haven't yet found a way to do better.

Even though the stuff Im doing right now is relatively easy, I think in the future I would love to play things that have nothing to do with me and thats good.

I was concerned about doing the right thing when I was a kid. I suppose as a child, youre a massive egomaniac, and you think that everything you do is going to affect the world.

Fishing can come as close to doing nothing as anything I can think of.

I think when you're reaching outside of something you're comfortable doing, you're just heading towards a light. I don't think you stop to justify it.

As long as you keep doing the right thing and have the best product, you can beat the bigger company.

People are getting attention for doing nothing, for behaving poorly, for abusing themselves in public and being abused, exploiting themselves. I find it vulgar and I find it awful.

Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing.

The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.

If you're working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I'm not sure you're doing your best work if you're doing it on an iPhone.

If you can't be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can.

Go on, son, you're not doing me any good by bleeding.