Top 100 You Have To Do It Quotes
#1. Quentin Tarantino assistant called me and said: "I have good news and bad news. The good news is you got the part, the bad news is you have to do it." I was like: "Oh Jesus, when am I supposed to do this?" I was prepping Hostel.
Eli Roth
#2. You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
Betty Ford
#4. You do stand-up because you have to do it. If you're doing it to become 'famous,' you're wrong. If you're doing it to become a millionaire, you're doing it for the wrong reasons. In 2003, I was flat broke. I'd been doing stand-up for 14 years at that point. I loved it and just kept at it.
Russell Peters
#5. Do what you have to do when you have to do it, so that you can do what you want to do when you want to do it.
M.K.
#6. Are you going to do it? Go on. You have to do it. I bet you won't be any crapper than I was.
Fat Charlie shrugged, in a way that, he hoped, indicated that he contained within him depths of crap as yet unplumbed.
Neil Gaiman
#7. If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.
Edna Ferber
#8. Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.
Milton Friedman
#9. I have to create opportunities for myself. But the thing I really have learned is that you gain nothing from sitting around waiting for the phone to ring - you have to do it for yourself.
Laura Benanti
#10. When you realize it's your responsibility to be a leader and create the world that you want to see, you have to do it.
Janelle Monae
#11. As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
Erica Jong
#12. There are a few things that can be done only by experiencing them. Love is one of them. There is no way to learn it; you have to do it. And by trial and error one learns.
Rajneesh
#13. I'm a dude, obviously, and when I'm not in a relationship, I don't do laundry until I want to. But if I live with a girl, you have to do it when she wants to or when we want to, which sucks.
Chris D'Elia
#14. It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.
Garth Ennis
#15. But when nobody punishes you, you have to do it yourself, and there's no release date on that. We're always harder on ourselves than any governing body could ever get away with being.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#16. If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.
Mignon McLaughlin
#17. You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself.
Neil Gaiman
#18. Trying Will Not Lead Into Actions, You Have To Do It
Marieke Stoop
#19. It's not fun to keep secrets, but sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you. - Meredith, p112
Sara Shepard
#20. In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.
Junior Seau
#21. A fractured team is just like a broken arm or leg; fixing it is always painful, and sometimes you have to rebreak it to make it heal correctly. And the rebreak hurts a lot more than the initial break, because you have to do it on purpose P.37
Patrick Lencioni
#22. You have to look at the body of work you're doing and then figure out the best way for people to digest it. You want people to come in and listen to all of it and understand the entire project. I think it's bad when everyone's like, "This is how you have to do it."
Jack Antonoff
#23. There are some really interesting celebrities and people who are fun to interview, but when you have to do it every day because you have to fill a slot, the allure wears off.
Chelsea Handler
#24. Success goes to the ones who do. Get up. Show up. Throw up if you have to. Do it afraid, but do it no matter.
Toni Sorenson
#25. When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.
Sarah Addison Allen
#26. I can forgive and forget ... it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.
M. L. Stedman - The Light Between Oceans
#27. When you introduce something new to a country, you want to do it right. Generally, that means you have to do it yourself.
Willy Bogner Jr.
#28. When you talk and think of the Absolute, you have to do it in the relative; so all these logical arguments apply.
Swami Vivekananda
#29. I said this to my daughter, if you don't practice the guitar, when you get older you wouldn't be able to play it. It's that simple. If you want to play the guitar, you put a half hour in everyday, but you have to do it.
Woody Allen
#30. Living by your principles will always be the harder path. But you have to do it anyway. You have to do what's right no matter how hard it gets, or one day you'll find out you've become somebody you can't live with.
Zoe Cannon
#31. Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.
Thomas Keller
#32. If you can lessen the chance of a bad injury by being strong, you have to do it.
Joel Parkinson
#33. I personally don't like school, but you have to do it if you want to get through life, so pretty much I put up with it.
RJ Mitte
#34. We've done very different Yes albums - 11 bars, 13. I think we had something that had 17/4 in it. It's just like anything - the more you do it, the more you have to do it.
Chris Squire
#35. The practice of forgiveness is very much like the practice of meditation. You have to do it often and persist at it in order to be any good.
Katerina Stoykova Klemer
#36. The computer is really like a pencil, you know. It used to be. The pencil can do anything you want to, but you have to do it, and the same is with the computer.
Massimo Vignelli
#37. It's better not to try to learn all the lines by rote. It's a very bad idea, in fact. You have to do it by using the process, and as I say, the process is to learn during rehearsals, and that's how you'll do it.
Angela Lansbury
#38. I also know that standing up for yourself can be hard. But you have to do it.
Sam Roxton
Sophie Kinsella
#39. Killing somebody, even if you have to do it, it feels that bad?'
'Willy, it's one of the ugliest things in the world.
Thomas Harris
#40. It's weird because my parents don't really understand my business. I get fan mail all day long, but if a piece happens to get to their house, they're like, 'Oh, my God, you've got a fan! You have to write them back. You have to do it!'
Idris Elba
#41. I tried to make guitars that were close to what my heroes played. That's the way it's done. My experience is that you have to do it like a musician. You have to learn the language before you can learn to be a novelist.
Paul Reed Smith
#42. Fashion is about having a point of view, a taste and a personality. For us we always felt we could apply our DNA really to anything but you have to do it if it's true to you, feels authentic. It has to be real.
Karen Walker
#43. If you're going to lose weight, you have to do it by changing your way of thinking about food. It cannot be the highlight of your life.
Jean Nidetch
#44. A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch and you want to pitch, that's what you'll do.
Warren Spahn
#45. Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
Carl Andre
#46. I've been on big tours ever since I started, but you can't just go out there and headline, you have to do it right.
Miranda Lambert
#47. Just because you have the capacity to do something doesn't mean you have to do it. Management, organization, speaking and traveling: you must ask not only what fruit they bring to the world, but what fruit they yield on the inside of your life and your heart. I
Shauna Niequist
#48. Stand-up is not something that you're good at right away. You have to do it a ton. But, I think I got to shave a year off because I didn't have to get over stage fright.
Amy Schumer
#49. It's very difficult to move yourself up bit by bit. It's like trying to eat an elephant for God's sake. I can do it. It's just I have to have it bite by bite, you know. It's possible. You can eat an elephant, but you have to do it bite by bite. You can't do it all in one go.
Colin Montgomerie
#50. You are a beloved child of God. But please remember this, too: You are human. You cannot expect to eat perfectly, look perfect, or be perfect. When you stumble, pick yourself up, even if you have to do it again and again.
Kate Wicker
#51. As an actor, that's nerve-wracking enough [drunk and doing coke] because you have to do it at the right level.
Ray Romano
#52. You'd been in Sunday school long enough to know how the story goes: the voice of God comes down from the sky and asks you to go where you don't want to go, to do what you don't want to do. And you have to do it anyway.
Addie Zierman
#53. Don't say you have started when you remain static. It takes just a step to start an arduous errand! Unleash yourself and take the courageous step tactically to accomplish the vision. When you have to do it, dare to do it!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#54. It was good to learn so early. They're not going to be kind to you. You have to do it and get on, and then gulp down and get better.
Judi Dench
#55. Think it, Believe it, Prepare for it, then give all you have to DO it!
Andi Jones
#56. It's so easy, isn't it, to decide the people you're fighting aren't really human. Or maybe you have to do it, to be able to kill them.
Ann Leckie
#57. If you're in it because you love it and you have to do it, that's the right reason. If you're in it because you want to get rich or famous, don't do it. People often say that my first years in Nashville, when I wasn't getting anything cut, were tough. Hell, those were great years.
Kris Kristofferson
#58. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.
M.L. Stedman
#59. When you start a new company, you have to do it all. Yes, all of it.
Kathryn Minshew
#60. If you want to have sex with strangers, you have to do it the old fashion way and become a prostitute.
Chelsea Handler
#61. You forgot the 'my precious,'" Anna said dryly. "If you want to act like a freaking nutcase, you have to do it right.
Patricia Briggs
#62. You have to do it and do it, until you get it right.
Julia Child
#63. reading is not something you have to do it should be some thing you want to do
Taylor Brooks
#64. You alone will know why I killed myself. You know my principles. I hate those who commit suicide. Besause of what they do TO OTHERS. If you have to do it, you must disguise it. Out of kindness.
Albert Camus
#65. 'Piaf' I did it because I wanted to do more theater instead of only musicals, and someone gave me the book and said to me, 'You have to do it.'
Elena Roger
#66. Kissing in films, it's just another thing you have to do. It kind of becomes as technical as how to open a door, really.
Elizabeth Debicki
#68. We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don't feel that anymore
Oprah Winfrey
#69. Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn't worth the trouble.
Robert Jordan
#70. Whatever you do, it's over when you do it - but first you have to do it.
Ornette Coleman
#71. The street kid in me says, Grab the money and run - who cares who it's from! Don't think about whatever you have to do for it or when you have to do it!
Klaus Kinski
#72. Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.
Andrei Voznesensky
#73. There is no point winning the semi if you don't win the final. It's as simple as that. No one will remember a big semifinal if you lose the final, so you have to do it all again.
Brian O'Driscoll
#74. Artists, musicians, scientists - if you have any kind of visionary aptitude, it's often something that you don't have a choice in. You have to do it.
Patti Smith
#75. When you undertake a change like that you have to do it with dreams and hopes, with illusions. To go without them is to merely run away ...
Maria Duenas
#76. If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. This especially includes your health care.
Andrew Saul
#77. But one thing I will impart to my children is: If you're scared of something, that isn't a sign that you have to do it. It probably means you shouldn't do it.
Mindy Kaling
#78. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn't work. You have to do it all together.
Aga Khan IV
#79. My understanding of the way sex scenes work is that you're surrounded by crew, and you're cold, and you have to do it eight times 'cause they didn't get the lighting. It doesn't sound pleasant, but you think that actors actually enjoy it?
Mindy Kaling
#80. Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things. - as Frank Roennfeldt
M.L. Stedman
#81. I had to overcome many things, many people telling me no. If you want it, and you believe in it, you have to do it. And I know it's silly, and I know I'm kind of irrationally optimistic, but you have to be and you can't really have another plan, because you're going to fall back on it.
Crystal Reed
#82. I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.
Michelle Bachelet
#83. The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them.
It's for their own good.
Sophie Kinsella
#84. It's hard work being a person, you have to do it every single day.
Carol Shields
#85. If you have to do it, then you're doing the right thing.
Kathy Valentine
#86. I don't see you making it to the top; nobody's going to help you get there. You have to do it all on your own. But if you want it so bad, prove me wrong.
Nabil N. Jamal
#87. But killing a man ought to mean something, even if you have to do it.
Joe R. Lansdale
#89. Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.
Louis L'Amour
#90. The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
Katharine Hepburn
#91. To be an artist means to invite an occupation into your life that requires commitment and hard work, but the rewards and satisfaction you'll get make the work seem like play. But you have to do it every day.
Veronica Lawlor
#92. Trade the dream of overnight success for slow, measured growth. It's hard, but you have to be patient. You have to grind it out. You have to do it for a long time before the right people notice.
Jason Fried
#93. Giving in to fear alters God's best plan for your life. So use the power of God's Word to do what He wants you to do ... even if you have to do it afraid! The rewards are great.
Joyce Meyer
#94. When you love someone, when you care for someone, you have to do it through the good and the bad. Not just when you're happy and it's easy.
Lauren Oliver
#95. When you make a record and have to go out on tour for it, you have to go out on tour for it. Whether it's going to be joyful or not, you have to do it.
Ted Leo
#96. What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter.
Peter Drucker
#97. In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if you were.
Bob Dylan
#98. Once you take a role, you have to do it properly and do it justice.
Tamsin Egerton
#99. If you have to say something, you have to say it now. And now more importantly, you have to do it yourself. It's your life, you're the one who dies, you're the one who loses it.
Cecelia Ahern
#100. Arrogance is a weird emotion to take on, but you have to do it.
Jack Gleeson
