Doing Quotes

I'm a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing. I have a heart and a soul and I want to touch people and give.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.

I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it.

As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.

It's nice to know that what you're doing is being read and enjoyed by a good deal of people.

Every time I reach a new audience, that means I'm doing something right.

My belief is the majority of people in politics are just interested in pursuing this career in politics, and doing what's necessary to get themselves re-elected. And if that happens to coincide with the public good, great. But if it doesn't, the public good loses out.

When we get involved in the ratings, then we're doing the network's job. We need to focus on our work.

People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.

When I think about actors I know, I'd much rather hear about who they're shagging than what film they're doing next.

I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front.

One of my co-workers at Ralph Lauren heard about the show, and when she got back to the office, said; Carson, you have to call Bravo. They're doing a show. You're perfect for it.

It was time to raise the bar higher, or lower if you're doing limbo.

Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.

There was no money in the sport but we'd be out there day in, day out, rain or shine, doing it.

I mean, I really liked those guys and the experience of doing Raiders was really good for me, but I did not really want to be involved - I only did Jedi, as I really owed George a favor.

I love racing and I love doing well.

I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters.

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.

I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines.

One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.

I don't see any reason to quit playing. I'll be doing this at least till I get to a hundred and something. You know, I ain't got far to go. But I'm still going to be playing, as long as I have good ideas, and can play as I do.

In 16, 17 years as a pro I was used to the head coach doing it alone. He might have asked his people for advice, but he made the decisions on his own. In order to learn quickly I couldn't do that.

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.

You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.

That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing.

I balance family and career by doing what makes me the happiest! That for me, without question, is putting my family and kids first.