Keep Doing It Quotes

#1. I think a lot of bands go on way past the point where they're relevant. Some of them keep doing it because they're making millions of dollars. Or people are afraid - they don't know what else to do. It's scary to get out of a relationship of any kind.

Dean Wareham

#2. It's so fun to do theater, because as opposed to television, you just keep doing it again and again and again - every night. Sometimes it lands beautifully, and sometimes it lands just beside of it. It's like throwing a horseshoe. It's great fun.

Missi Pyle

#3. You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it.

Noah Baumbach

#4. I love touring, I love doing the live show and it's just like a musical artist, you just keep coming up with material and as long as you're coming up with the material and as long as audiences like it, you just keep doing it, it's your job.

Jeff Dunham

#5. If what you're doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing it.

Clay Shirky

#6. When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it.

Ansel Elgort

#7. Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.

Zendaya

#8. The 9th key may be the door opener. Don't give up after trying the 8th. Keep doing it!

Israelmore Ayivor

#9. Mother: "I'm amazed that more people don't commit suicide. They just keep on living. It's so hard and they just keep doing it." Useful

Eula Biss

#10. The country is like a great sponge - it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will get dysentery and whatever you do, if you don't keep doing it, the jungle will grow over you. Black or white, you've got to fight it every minute of the day.

Katharine Hepburn

#11. Funny thing, employment. If you keep doing it, you keep getting paid.

N.K. Jemisin

#12. They know my story, but I don't know theirs. That is why I keep doing it.

Celine Dion

#13. If travel has momentum and wants to stay in motion, as I mentioned earlier, then adventure has the gravitational pull of a black hole. The more you do it, the more you find a way to keep doing it.

Josh Gates

#14. The goodness you do might fail; but keep doing it, because the real failure is never doing goodness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. One sticks his fingers in my eyes. I don't know what he has on his fingertips, but whatever it is burns like hell. I think I am gonna be blind forever. He says he will keep doing it until i am completely blind.

Assata Shakur

#16. I want to roll my eyes right now, but the doctor says that if I keep doing it, my ocular muscles might spasm and eject my eyeballs.

LIZ

#17. Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.

Tom Clancy

#18. The whole time I've been an actor, from early in Houston, my goal has been to work - to keep doing it. I feel at my most satisfied as a human being when I'm working on a role.

Jim Parsons

#19. If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it.

Joan Chen

#20. Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#21. Standing on the court and holding up that trophy - it's so great you want to keep doing it over and over again.

Tim Duncan

#22. Yet, that's what studios do. If one thing works, they'll keep doing it till it runs its course and people aren't interested anymore.

Boris Kodjoe

#23. I find myself getting associated with a lot of younger people in the game. I still enjoy playing with them, and I think they still enjoy playing with me. As long as I can stay competitive and have fun doing what I'm doing, I guess I'll keep doing it.

Arnold Palmer

#24. There are people out there who enjoy hurting and scaring others. They're going to keep doing it until you make them stop.

Jim Butcher

#25. It's human nature to want to keep going, but you have to fight against the "I'm just gonna keep doing it" when you know the possibility of not looking great on the way out.

Nikki Sixx

#26. The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.

Eliot Porter

#27. You have to keep doing it,
Even if no one is watching.
The best artists, are those
Who live from their expressions,
Not chasing the impressions.

Nikki Rowe

#28. Never retire! Do what you do and keep doing it. But don't do it on Friday. Take Friday off. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, go fishing ... Then Monday to Thursday, do what you've been doing all your life. My point is: Live full and don't retreat.

Mel Brooks

#29. The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.

Adam Driver

#30. Nobody home but She for Whom I Am the World. Can't go on like this, can't keep doing it.- Jericho Barrons

Karen Marie Moning

#31. I'm sure with a production that's not particularly well received or mediocrely received, it must be incredibly challenging to get up and keep doing it.

Gillian Anderson

#32. When someone judges you for something you can't help, try to forgive them. They don't understand. And if they keep doing it, knock their fucking teeth in.

Seanan McGuire

#33. People always ask me how long somebody can last as long as I've been lasting and continue to keep doing it, so I figured that people didn't really know how to do that.

Jermaine Dupri

#34. There were decades I didn't play sober. I thought, Who would want to? But at some point, I decided that if it was important enough to me to keep doing it as art, I should do it with all my tools.

Kris Kristofferson

#35. Find your voice, shout it from the rooftops, and keep doing it until the people that are looking for you find you.

Dan Harmon

#36. I masturbate! I do it like I think if I keep doing it, I'm gonna win something.

Dave Attell

#37. I think it's nice to know that people in the industry are paying attention to all of the hard work you've done throughout the years and rewarding you for it. It reminds you to keep doing it, to keep pushing yourself, and to always remain that way.

Joan Smalls

#38. Comedy is more difficult. You can look at scenes when you're doing a drama like, "Maybe it works," but in comedy, when you're doing it, either it works or it doesn't. You have to keep doing it until it does, and the requirement is more.

Jack Nicholson

#39. Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.

Florynce Kennedy

#40. As you get older as a comedian and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction.

Patton Oswalt

#41. The internet did not exist when I started out, the fact that bands can build a website and get all their information out there is really helpful. If you really love to play, I would say to keep doing it, because it's what you love and what you have to do.

Joan Jett

#42. I'm going to claim her by the end of the night." He flashed his fangs. "I'll take her home, mount her, fuck her until she screams my name and keep doing it until she swells with what's mine."
-Brawn

Laurann Dohner

#43. In England, and all over Europe, and all over the world, actors act until they die. They get old, really old, and they're still working. They just keep doing it.

Christopher Walken

#44. Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work out for most people.

Ben Mendelsohn

#45. An Important thing : never lie to yourself, for real ... worst thing is when you lie to yourself, you just keep doing it and you don't know.

Nicky Kastrati

#46. I want to be best golfer in the world. But I feel like golf is not everything in my life, but I want to keep doing it, keep working hard, do the best I can on the tour and give back to the tour.

Yani Tseng

#47. Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer a writer.

Chloe Thurlow

#48. I'll keep doing it until I die or the audiences die.

Mark Russell

#49. I don't know who's left to hear us. But if there are people who want the real thing, we've got it. My band rocks, and I plan to keep doing it 'till nobody shows up to see it anymore.

Ronnie Hawkins

#50. I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.

Ali MacGraw

#51. Learn how to program and play lots of games. If you find yourself capable of writing a game, someday you'll be capable of writing a really good game. My dad's a writer, and when you ask him how to learn to write, he says, "write." So basically, do it and keep doing it until you get good.

Fred Haslam

#52. Really, I just love doing comedy. Any form it takes is great, as long as I can keep doing it, you know? If I can do my show and 'The League' while also getting to do other bits, that's awesome.

Nick Kroll

#53. I remember asking one of my agents, like, 'Hey, is this Instagram thing good for models, or is it bad?' And they said, 'No. Keep doing it. Heidi Klum, or whoever, has millions of followers, and that doesn't hurt them.' So, I kept with it. I think it definitely helped.

Charlotte McKinney

#54. Success is not a chance. It is destiny. It is not an option. It is your destination. Remember this. Keep doing it. Insist and persist in order to speed up the inevitable outcome.

Ryan Gavini

#55. I'm very lucky to be able to do what I love to do, and I hope I can keep doing it for a while.

Kathy Bates

#56. Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.

Chris O'Dowd

#57. since my logic is simply lacking logic, and yet, I still keep doing it in order to satisfy some weird, twisted part of my mind.

Lena Mikado

#58. It was like either: (A) I was a terrible guy who was knowingly doing this rotten thing over and over, or (B) it wasn't so rotten, really, just normal, and the way to confirm it was normal was to keep doing it, over and over.

George Saunders

#59. I don't think anyone ever gets completely used to conflict. If it's not a little uncomfortable, then it's not real. The key is to keep doing it anyway

Patrick Lencioni

#60. Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.

Michael Douglas

#61. Keep it simple, so you'll keep doing it.

Steve Krug

#62. I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.

Ralph Stanley

#63. If you don't love it, you can't suffer thru all the despair that comes with it. Keep doing it because you love it.

Robert Stack

#64. I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep doing it? What's corrupting is wanting to be more important. You want to be more arty - you get your identity from that. Or you get your identity out of making more money.

Jane Campion

#65. Flying, I continue to be involved with. I love flying, and I hope to keep doing it so long as I can pass my medicals and stay proficient.

Ratan Tata

#66. Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.

Jenny Downham

#67. Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I'm not stupid. (Xypher)
I didn't say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#68. I get very nervous in un-trodden territory but it's important to keep doing it just to prove to myself that I can do it.

Yasmin Paige

#69. The most fun moments are being on the stage and seeing how the crowd reacts to your music. The energy of the crowd that makes you just want to go in and keep doing it and be a part of this forever.

Nayvadius Cash

#70. I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing.

Damon Albarn

#71. You have to write. You have to sit down and do it every day. Find your method, your motivation, your tenacity to keep doing it even when you can no longer explain why you would even try.

Catherine Cruzan

#72. Must do all we can do without destroying our ability to keep doing it.

Orson Scott Card

#73. But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.

William Joyce

#74. I didn't get attached to Botox. It is costly, and you have to remember to keep doing it.

Cherie Lunghi

#75. You don't need to travel far to make people happy. When you make people nearer to you happy, people farther away from you will surely come. Keep doing it!

Israelmore Ayivor

#76. No, really, what do you like about me? she insisted.

Why?

I figure if I know, I can keep doing it to keep you as long as I can.

Vivek Shraya

#77. Nature, God, Buddha - someone has given me this health. I can break dance still; I can run; I can play basketball. In my mind, I can do anything. As long as I have that spirit, I'm going to keep doing it.

James Hong

#78. There's no need to inundate the world with books and language. It's just too full already. There's so much rubbish hiding in the world. But as long as I think I can do something inventive and insightful, then I'll keep doing it.

Robert Coover

#79. What's exciting about being an artist, still, and what I'm really finding is awesome is that you can do it until you drop. I don't care how many lines I have on my face - I'll keep doing it!

Nikki Sixx

#80. When in doubt do something; and hope that if you keep doing it you'll come to understand what it is.

Robert B. Parker

#81. All the magazines contradict each other because it is so diverse. Know what you like, know what looks good on you and keep doing it, no reason to chase trends.

Tim Gunn

#82. I see no reason to quit. I can't imagine walking away from being Big Bird. I mean, that's an awfully good job that there's not too many of them. So I just want to keep doing it till I can't do it anymore.

Caroll Spinney

#83. Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.

Heather Armstrong

#84. To succeed you must do the work. To do the work takes character. To keep doing it takes mental toughness.

William James Moore

#85. I think that artists, at a certain point, can either become defiant and say that the audience is wrong, readers don't get them, and they're going to keep doing it their own way, or they can listen to the criticism - and not necessarily blindly follow the audience's requests and advice.

Adrian Tomine

#86. When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring.

Carolina Herrera

#87. My running ambition is to keep doing it until I'm way past the point where I have any business running. Just to keep doing it throughout my whole life - to stay fit and feel good.

Leroy Chiao

#88. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done. I have to be almost frightened by the possibility of taking it on. Over the years, I realise I must enjoy walking that edge; I keep doing it.

Mark Harmon

#89. You want to retire from a job you're not that all enamoured with. I love what I do. I want to keep doing it till I can't get out of bed doing it.

Morgan Freeman

#90. Parents drinking is the reason you came into the world, and if we didn't keep doing it then, by God, it would be the reason you went back out of it.

Caitlin Moran

#91. My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it.

Tracy Chapman

#92. If you think you cannot do it, you set yourself up to fail anyway. Maybe it will take one more try to do it, and that is what life is about. If you don't get it right on the first try, you try again. You keep doing it and doing it until you find success!

Benoit Lecomte

#93. Just believe in what you're doing, and keep doing it.

Ricky Nelson

#94. Each person can achieve balance by cutting a few things out and seeing how it goes. If you cut something out, and it goes well, and your life is better, you keep doing it.

Kim Stolz

#95. I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and smoothly.

Richard Greenberg

#96. I went over and over everything that had ever happened between us. I couldn't keep doing it, going back and fourth, holding her close and then pushing her away. It wasn't right

Jenny Han

#97. I'm a film doll. But I'm enjoying it. So I'm gonna keep doing it.

Shannyn Sossamon

#98. I guess if we do enough shows and keep doing it long enough, then people will get the picture. But I can't really be bothered if they don't get the picture. That's not my concern.

John Britt Daniel

#99. Doors open to you every time you get a different role. So, yeah, the research is my passion; that's why I keep doing it.

Michael Hogan

#100. I feel like you come in under a cloak of someone else's skin for a while, but then you can shrug it off - you have to find your own voice, if you want to keep doing it. That became a really conscious thing for me.

Bill Callahan