Doing Quotes

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly.

My motto in life is, 'If anything is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.'

I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!

For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose the wrong subjects at A-level. I read all the sciences to start with, and then had to admit, 'This isn't what I want to do' and changed course.

When somebody has convinced you that you're not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.

After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it.

I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.

If it is not scary, it is not worth doing.

Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.

If you're not having fun it's not worth doing.

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

What's worth doing is worth doing for money.

The worst thing is to get involved with people who aren't passionate about what they're doing.

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

The worst thing that an actor can do is go into any project with a lack of respect for the material. You can have an opinion about it, but you have to respect yourself in doing it.

Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else.

I could suddenly see the pressures all around; these endless magazines and cheap reality TV programmes poking at women, humiliating us for every flaw. It makes me so angry. I really wonder what it is we are doing to ourselves, because I do think women can be the worst ones for picking each other apart.

But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well.

I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't.

Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.

Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.

Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.

I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse.

It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy.