D Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with D. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Doing 'EastEnders' wasn't exactly suffering, but my soul's not in quick-fix TV. Theatre doesn't pay like TV work pays, though. We all have to live, don't we?”
“Doing 'White Collar,' quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover.”
“Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors.”
“Doing 20 minutes of stretching, light weights and floor exercises three times a week takes the same amount of time as a long coffee break - and eating a tuna fish salad, sardines on toast or scrambled eggs is surely preferable to a Big Mac or KFC.”
“Doing [a relationship comedy] with Sam [L. Jackson] was exciting. I've done a lot of comedies with a lot of comedy people. My peers. I've never worked with anybody of the kind of dramatic caliber of movie actor that Sam is. It was a little bit intimidating for the first day. Or two... Or the first week. Other than that, it was a joy.”
“Doing a background check is still a very manual process, because the government agencies that create the records are largely paper-based systems. I'm not going to deny that there are errors, because in any system that involves human beings or technology, there are going to be errors.”
“Doing a budget means learning an ancient and powerful word: NO.”
“Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.”
“Doing a film and saying, I've done a really dark film and now I have to do a comedy... That's not me. If a script comes along and it's dark I'll absolutely do it and take the consequences. I'm not fussed about the image that goes along with it.”
“Doing a film with your friend is probably the best way to end that friendship but we worked together really well. We just have that thing. Chemistry is something that... I just think it is the last thing in Hollywood, the last magical thing they haven't computerised. There's nothing you can do about it - it's either there or it's not and it doesn't matter if you're friends or not. It was just a bonus that we were.”
“Doing a film, or being sent scripts to look at a certain character, it's very odd for me. I tend to take it very personally.”
“Doing a good deed isn't so hard. Showing a bright smile to your loved ones makes a difference. Saying Thank you to anyone who made an effort to you creates a difference. Saying a word of encouragement here and there makes a difference. Small donations, small advice, sharing what you can, all these right, easy to do deeds can make this world a better place.”
“Doing a good impression of a backup goalie the last few weeks.”
“Doing a half-hour TV show is a dream”
“Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.”
“Doing a job badly and then getting someone in to sort it out can be much more expensive than getting someone in to do the job properly in the first place.”
“Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.”
“Doing a job well is the thing. It's its own thing.”
“Doing a job, or even watching a film, can make a difference to your life, but I don't think it ever has an explosive impact where your life will never be the same again. It kind of seeps into your life, and perhaps realise you're a little more vigilant about certain things than you might have been.”
“Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.”
Source: Flourish
“Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.”
Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion
“Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but i feel like when you believe something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can't help yourself.”
Source: Allegiant
“Doing a little bit of good here and there makes everything a little bit better, everywhere.”
“Doing a little work around the house. I put fake brick wallpaper over a real brick wall, just so I'd be the only one who knew. People come over and I'm gonna say, "Go ahead, touch it... it feels real."”
“Doing a love story as a genre, and looking at love stories in movies, and feeling like I learned stuff about that, and that it broadened my view and my idea of what I can do, and how I can work with the people around me, that was such a great, really satisfying experience.”
“Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You cant get much less sexy, less active than that.”
“Doing a movie about Steve Jobs is just generally a provocative thing to do, whoever does it, and it begs a lot of questioning and skepticism only in that, what is this going to be? What am I going to be looking at? And curiosity as well. I think thats all positive in any film, because you want people to be curious about it.”
“Doing a movie in Tel Aviv or London or South Africa or Mexico. It's this great second act to my career, and it's a real good time.”
“Doing a movie is a stressful thing. You spend months of you life focusing into that one project, and I want to make sure I do something I really like or I'm really passionate about.”
“Doing a picture with Willie Wyler is like getting the works at a Turkish bath. You damn near drown, but you come out smelling like a rose.”
“Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.”
“Doing a route at the absolute limit of the possible demands and encourages a coordination of all peripheral factors. It is, at the same time, a sign of joy and contentment with that moment, perhaps even a mirror of the equlibrium in your inner spirit, a mirror of a liberated state of mind.”
“Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up for another bottle?”
“Doing a scene truthfully is very similar to doing a song truthfully. They're really parallel.”
“Doing a series, every week you work with a new star.”
“Doing a show is very similar to what meditation is supposed to be: being there and being present in that space and time.”
“Doing a sitcom is like doing a play - you rehearse for three or four days, and then you shoot what you rehearsed on Friday night in front of an audience. An hour-long drama is like shooting a movie. You're shooting 13-14 hour days. The endurance itself is different.”
“Doing a space walk. It is one of the most rare human experiences. To leave your spaceship and go outside, so that you are alone in the universe with Earth distant and the universe around you. That is amazing.”
“Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.”
“Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of my life. Sacred simplicity.”
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things
“Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.”
Source: An Essay on the Trial by Jury
“Doing a thing call the Hillbilly Rock, some say it came from Elvis down in Tennessee.”
“Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things.”
“Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib.”
Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose
“Doing action, the thing is it's cool to watch it, and as a guy I like seeing it. With the romance thing it's something everyone can relate to. Once you have love as a motivator in a story, I think everyone can do anything. Once someone's in love they can do the craziest thing that no one's ever thought of. You have that excuse to do whatever you want.”
“Doing activities that you love to do, even a few minutes a day, can help you experience more flow, improve your well-being, and help you share your unique gifts with the world.”
“Doing actual comedic material is just about the most joyful endeavor ever. That's the truth. The only time it's not funny is when business gets in the way.”
“Doing agile is a set of activities, but being agile is the state of mind, the ongoing capability, and the cultural adaptability.”
Source: Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
“Doing Agile is just a first step; being agile needs to have a totally different mindset, and multidimensional perspectives.”
Source: Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
“Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.”
Source: the bell jar