Top 100 What I Do Quotes
#1. I don't understand why I do what I do. I don't understand why I act anymore. But I do know that I love it, and that I find it really interesting and satisfying to enter into other worlds and explore different ways of thinking.
Toni Collette
#2. I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary marks on it that start me on some sort of dialogue.
Richard Diebenkorn
#3. What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress ... There's a lot of tribalism in the collections,
Alexander McQueen
#4. I've always worked with my partner, my husband, Cameron, since 'Raw Like Sushi,' and in a way, I feel very free with what I do, but he also has an amazing insight in having intuitions that tend to be right a lot of the time, about where we should go next.
Neneh Cherry
#5. But what I do love about this road is how the gaudy becomes grand, how tastelessness is a way of everyday life
Michael Zadoorian
#6. What I do know is that I love the whole idea of family, even the word itself.
Martin Clunes
#7. Once you really understand your role ... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.
C. Thomas Howell
#8. What people forget is that I'm an actress. That's the wonderful thing about what I do. I get to play different roles.
Keshia Knight Pulliam
#9. I would not be happy to do what I do unless I felt that the large audience wanted it.
Giorgio Moroder
#10. Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.
Jessa Crispin
#11. I'm not the most loved person on the planet. People assume they understand who I am by what I do.
Mark T Bertolini
#12. Life is long and full of an infinite number of decisions. I have to think that the small ones don't matter, that I'll end up where I need to end up no matter what I do.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#13. I must admit that outside the university, it is difficult to be a pure mathematician. No one in my family understands what I do. My neighbors wonder why I spend all my time in my study scribbling with pencil on a yellow pad of paper instead of going outside to mow the lawn.
Isadore Singer
#14. I never see myself as the famous person. It never was a part of my life, and I hope this doesn't become the most eminent thing about what I do. I just hope that I'll do things that have meaning for me and for others somehow.
Ayelet Zurer
#15. You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one.
John Irving
#16. - "no matter what I do, I cannot be free while others are enslaved, I cannot be truly happy while others suffer.
Unknown
#17. Throughout my life, I have tried to share my philosophy that getting and staying healthy doesn't have to feel like work. I don't diet or slave away in a gym - what I do is make excellent food choices.
Suzanne Somers
#18. I feel like the best thing, as far as what I do with kids, is I treat them like human beings.
Mike Vallely
#19. I just go out there and do what I do and try and hit my spots.
Johan Santana
#20. I'm really fortunate that I am in continuous work and I love what I do. And I think that there's a reason that it keeps happening. So while that keeps happening, I will be thrilled - and feel lucky - to keep doing it.
Rose McIver
#21. I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important.
Tom Hanks
#22. What I do believe in is the moral code of Christianity.
Damian Lewis
#23. How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
Charles Lamb
#25. I'm proud to have so many great friends at country radio who believe in what I do - thanks to all of them.
Joe Nichols
#26. What I do for a living puts me in the spotlight.
Ali Larter
#27. I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.
Ahmed H. Zewail
#28. Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.
Neil Diamond
#29. I have a really strong passion for what I do. I don't see myself doing anything else.
Zendaya
#30. Lamar is just Lamar. My teammates probably can explain that a little better than I can. If I just go out there and do what I do and be myself, it shouldn't be a problem.
Lamar Odom
#31. You know what I do on Sundays? I sing in a choir. I sing in a Greek Orthodox choir, and I'm the only hillbilly tenor in the Orthodox Church.
Chris Hillman
#32. The idea that I am cynical because I'm writing the books that I write is a bit like someone saying, 'What, you've done a second album? Oh, I see, cashing in on your first album, are you?' But I'm a musician! It's sort of what I do.
Ben Schott
#33. I try to put all I am as a person into what I do. My intelligence, my emotion. I've done that in everything.
Tom Heinsohn
#34. The whole basis of my work is analysing what I do and building some sort of intellectual framework. The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas. They are the only subversion.
Vivienne Westwood
#35. My relationship with Salman Khan is too personal to talk about. I take my work like any other regular job, and what I do in my personal life is no one's business. I'd rather let my work do all the talking.
Katrina Kaif
#37. It draws you in and creates pictures, so what I do is almost like a talking story book.
Slick Rick
#38. I love doing what I do, but I don't like seeing the finished product.
Pamela Anderson
#39. I love what I do ... When I'm in there I don't want to be nowhere else in the world ... I love this game more than anything.
Conor McGregor
#40. As a professional photographer I take photographs for other people to see - but I want them to see what I see. So I never assume that only a few people will appreciate what I do. At all times, the public should be able to understand what I've done, even if they don't understand how I've done it.
Elliott Erwitt
#41. I wish what I do was all real. Some of it's real, some of it's an illusion and I try to blur the line between both, but unfortunately I've got to be honest with you. Taking a $1 bill and turning it into a $100 - unfortunately it's not real.
Criss Angel
#42. I love what I do, and I love doing it, and I love getting better at it. I just am not willing to risk ... Much ... to go on to the next level. I don't want to risk my personal sanity or happiness or my family or the love of my life.
Summer Phoenix
#43. I was probably born a scorer, but I was made a winner. Whatever works, whatever wins championships, wins games, that's what I do.
Kobe Bryant
#44. It is reassuring to know that I can control how I feel and what I do on any given day. The eay I choose to see the world creates the world I see.
Joan Lunden
#45. The CrossFit program is broad, general and inclusive, and most of all, the movements can be scaled down to any level of athlete. Just watch what I do with it on 'The Biggest Loser.'
Bob Harper
#46. I don't even need to do anything; I am always amped to skate. Always amped to be competing. I love competing - that's what I do. Any contest, it doesn't really take much. Just get me on the course and I'll get going.
Ryan Sheckler
#47. Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.
James L. Brooks
#48. I'm taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a comic. It's very collaborative, arty, fun and cool.
Margaret Cho
#49. I say God is kind. So many people want to do what I do [comedy] for a living, and so he didn't have to choose me. So I don't take all the credit, but I do know that I love what I do, and I see it as a gift.
Niecy Nash
#50. What I do I am driven to do. I follow the dictates of a looming and unseen force. I try to become like a musical instrument, intruding no sound of its own but bringing forth such tones as are played upon it by a master's hand.
Arnold Friberg
#51. For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I'm not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven't had the opportunity.
Chad Hugo
#52. If you love what you do, if you love going to the office, if you really like it - not just say it, but really like it - it keeps you young and energised. I really love what I do.
Donald Trump
#53. Sometimes I feel entirely disassociated from what I do. It's a malady of the modern age.
Guy Vanderhaeghe
#54. Sitting down with younger women writers and saying, "This is what I do and you can do this" is hugely important.
Sarah Ruhl
#56. I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.
Nina Simone
#57. The window on the right featured contemporary bestselling authors like Brad Meltzer, James Patterson, David Baldacci, Nelson DeMille, and others who make more money writing about what I do than I make doing what I do.
Nelson DeMille
#58. I've never walked off stage and said, I shouldn't have done that. Because when you do what I do, you're like a fighter. You throw the right hand and say, That's what got me to this dance. You can't have doubt. If you have doubt, there's no show.
Don Rickles
#59. The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very interesting work. So that's what I do.
Brian Dennehy
#60. If twang isn't what I do, I don't know what is.
George Strait
#61. What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
#62. I think I've been asked a lot more than most TV producers to go on-camera. But I just do what I do and don't think about the package.
Chris Carter
#64. I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.
Lady Gaga
#65. Because of what I do, it has to be an open book, but right now this is a book that is being written.
Kevin Hart
#66. Being a stand-up comic, this isn't a stepping-stone for me; it's what I do, and this is what I'm always going to do. And even if I do a TV show, the only reasons to do a TV show is to get more people to know me to come out to my stand-up shows.
Bill Burr
#67. I just want to keep working. Longevity is really important. I am extremely passionate about what I do and the happiest I am is when I'm on set working. I suppose longevity and respect. It takes longevity to earn respect.
Chris Zylka
#68. I actually didn't like that feeling of being out of touch because what I do depends on being in touch. But it's fun to talk about. That's one of the real dangers of drugs: they're too much fun to talk about.
Clive James
#69. No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
Edgar Degas
#70. What I do know is our state and country is currently backwards and upside-down, and we all are to blame in one fashion or another.
David Pratt
#71. Somebody referred to what I do as subliminal activism, which I like.
Edward Burtynsky
#72. Goal-setting and achieving those goals - that's just what I do.
Lisa Leslie
#73. I don't think of myself as a leader. I am, but I don't think of myself that way. I'm not trying to belittle what I do, but I think of myself as a dancer first. I'll always be a dancer.
Judith Jamison
#74. I try to be very modest with what I do. I'm not a frivolous spender.
Nancy Lopez
#75. I just feel like I know what I bring to the game. Very confident in what I do.
Terrell Owens
#76. I like the fact that I can go away and lose myself so I don't have to live in the world of courage that everyone else does. I like creating, it's what I do, and acting allows me to stretch all those different muscles in all kinds of ways. That's pretty cool.
Roddy Piper
#77. I went to a theater arts school, so I'm interested in many different projects, whether it be film, television or even live theater. I'm a performer. That's what I do. That's what I want to do.
Derek Hough
#78. When you do what I do, there are a lot of institutions that give you awards. I've gotten maybe 20 medals. They're glorious, and there's a spirit behind them. But sometimes they give you this dreadful modern glass thing. I wish everyone could afford a loving cup.
Michael Graves
#79. I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do.
Richie Sambora
#80. I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I go.
Edward Hirsch
#81. I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable.
Steven Soderbergh
#82. I suppose everything I do has sexual undertones, but I don't set out to make everything about sex. My clothes are more about sensuality. What I do is dress and beautify the body. My feeling is, if you have something beautiful, then show it.
Tom Ford
#83. What I do believe happens in a lot of these cases is that we somehow want to place blame on the victim for their behavior or that they brought it upon themself. As law enforcement official, you are held to a higher standard. You are expected to execute your job in that regard.
Sharon Cooper
#85. I own 100% of everything because I like to control what I do.
Roustam Tariko
#86. She didn't understand, I hope to God she never understands what I do, what I am. To be dammed by the darkness that lives inside me.
To be saved by her love.
No more half-truths. No more omissions.
Linnea Sinclair
#87. Don't ask me about this building or that one, don't look at what I do, see what I see.
Luis Barragan
#88. I decided to do what I do when I was 2 years old. At 2 years old, you know, I heard the sound of a drum playing in the village, and I found my own drum and just picked it up and started playing, the worst song ever written by Wyclef Jean.But it actually started a vibe.
Wyclef Jean
#89. I don't know how you're going to find Noah Scott or if he already knows you're coming or hell, if you've been having cybersex with him for five years, and I don't give a shit. What I do know is that I love you, and that I want you to find yourself and come back to me.
C.M. Stunich
#90. Everyone loves to dance. I've realize that's a part of what I do more and more every day.
Ciara
#91. I've nothing against stay-at-home mums, but I love going to work, I love what I do and I wouldn't want to start resenting my home life if I was staying home 365 days a year.
Keeley Hawes
#92. Any play, I'm ready for all the plays, ... That's the whole thing ... Any time I can get out and show I can do this, do those type of things, I'm going to do it. It was just fun, being able to run and get down the field. Just run, do what I do.
Ron Dayne
#93. I give up so much to do what I do. Like, I give up a personal life. I give up my friends, my family. I give up a lot of stuff to pursue what I love and to make my fans happy. I give up so much. So, I'm going to be the best.
Justin Bieber
#94. To be honest, I don't know really what I do on stage.
Peter Hammill
#95. What's wrong with pleasure, Takver? why don't you want it?"
"Nothing's wrong with it. And I do want it. Only I don't need it. And if I take what I don't need, I'll never get to what I do need.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#96. I like working. It is where I feel useful. I have no plans to cut down. I am happy with what I do. There will be a lot more of me yet, that's for sure.
Harrison Ford
#97. Judge me on what I do and I think you will be pleased and proud of me.
Catherine Ashton
#98. I'm on my own, luckily doing well, but like I said, we don't make a ridiculous amount of money and I have to be disciplined with what I do with it.
Jonathan Horton
#99. I've had a lot of practice and wrong's what I do best.
George Jones
#100. I'm really passionate and love everything lifestyle-oriented, so that's what I do on my website. I have been able to get other people to contribute to the website to create kind of a hub for people in the millennial generation - people my age.
Katherine Schwarzenegger
