Pinkie, I don’t care what you’ve done. Brighton Rock 1947 [US: Young Scarface] starring Richard Attenborough & Carol Marsh & Hermione Baddeley & William Hartnell & Harcourt Williams & Wylie Watson & Nigel Stock & Reginald Purdell & George Carney & Charles Goldner & Alan Wheatley, director John Boulting, her to him
I can’t do it, Sonny. Dog Day Afternoon 1975 starring Al Pacino & John Cazale & Charles Durning & James Broderick & Lance Henriksen & Chris Sarandon & Penelope Allen & Carole Kane et al, director Sidney Lumet, Stevie
Do it first. Do it yourself. And keep on doing it. Scarface 1932 aka The Shame of the Nation starring Paul Muni & George Raft & Ann Dvorak & Karen Morley & Osgood Perkins & C Henry Gordon & Vince Barnett & Boris Karloff & Purnell Pratt & Tully Marshall et al, director Howard Hughes, advice in car
Must I do something? Piccadilly Third Stop 1960 starring Terence Morgan & Yoko Tani & Mai Zetterling & William Hartnell & John Crawford & Dennis Price & Ann Lynn & Charles Kay et al, director Wolf Rilla, Serafina
We do what the fuck what we gotta do, man. By any means. Hustle & Flow 2005 starring Terrence Howard & Anthony Anderson & Isaac Hayes & Elise Neal & Taryn Manning & Taraji P Henson & D J Qualls & Chris Bridges & Paula Jai Parker & Juicy J & Haystak, director Craig Brewer, DJ
People do things they don’t mean sometimes. They just happen. The Sound of Fury 1950 starring starring Frank Lovejoy & Lloyd Bridges & Kathleen Ryan & Richard Carlson & Katherine Locke & Adale Jergens & Art Smith et al, director Cyril Endfield, him to her
Without him, I’m afraid of the things I’ll do. Lady of Deceit 1947 aka Born to Kill starring Claire Trevor & Lawrence Tierney & & Walter Slezak & Phillip Terry & Audrey Long & Elisha Cook & Isabel Jewell & Esther Howard et al, director Robert Wise, her to him
Every good thing we do gets erased. Every bad thing we do gets erased. Does it really matter what we do? Repeaters 2010 starring Dustin Milligan & Amanda Crew & Alexia Fast & Gabrielle Rose & Michael Adamthwaite & Manoj Sood & John Cassini, director Carl Bessai, her to him
Everything is quiet and empty here. There’s nothing to do. The Last Picture Show 1971 starring Jeff Bridges & Timothy Bottoms & Ellen Burstyn & Ben Johnson & Cybill Shepherd & Cloris Leachman & Clu Gulager et al, director Peter Bogdanovich, mother
Is there something I can do for you? Star Trek s2e12: The Deadly Years, Kirk to bird
People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If to do were as easy as to know what were good, to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o’er a cold decree. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice I ii 12-18, Portia to Nerissa
O! what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do! William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing IV i 19
Between the acting of a dreadful thing and the first motion all the interim is like a phantasma or a hideous dream. Julius Caesar 2012 starring Paterson Joseph & Ray Fearon & Cyril Nri & Adjoa Andoh & Jeffery Kissoon et al, director Gregory Duran RSC production ***** Brutus
If it were done when ’tis done, then it were well it were done quickly. Macbeth 2001 starring Antony Sher & Harriet Walter, director Gregory Doran Roundhouse London, Macbeth I vii 1&2
The service and loyalty I owe,
In doing it, pays itself. William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth I iv 22, Macbeth
I go, and it is done. The bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell. ibid. II i 62-65, Macbeth
The attempt and not the deed,
Confounds us. ibid. II ii 10&11 Lady Macbeth
I have done the deed. ibid. II ii 14, Macbeth
What’s done is done. ibid. III ii 15, Lady Macbeth
Thou canst not say I did it: never shake
Thy gory locks at me. ibid. III iv 50
What’s done cannot be undone. Macbeth 1948 starring Orson Welles & Jeanette Nolan & Dan O'Herlihy & Peggy Webber & Roddy McDowall & Edgar Barrier & Alan Napier & Erskine Sanford & Christopher Welles & Jerry Farber & John Dierkes et al, director Orson Welles, Lady Macbeth
What should I do I do not? William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra I iii 8, Cleopatra
Let’s start a revolution. Let’s get out of here. Let’s do something. Tupac Shakur
If a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well. Mid-18th century proverb
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. Mid-16th century proverb
What’s done cannot be undone. Mid-15th century proverb
Been that, done that, got the T-shirt. 20th century slogan
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. Edmund Burke
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke, attributions & variations, but cf. John Stuart Mill, address University of St Andrew 1st February 1867
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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends than that good men should look on and do nothing. John Stuart Mill, address University of St Andrews 1st February 1867
Always do whatever’s next. George Carlin
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. Alexander Woodcott
I can do it! Digger the Dog, Big Barn Farm, BBC 2008-2010
We can’t all do everything. Virgil, Eclogues
Austin Powers: What exactly do you do, Number Two?
Number Two: That’s my business. Now, if you’ll excuse me I have to go to the little boys’ room. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery 1997 starring Mike Myers & Elizabeth Hurley & Robert Wagner & Seth Green & Mindy Sterling & Michael York & Fabiana Udenio & Will Ferrell & Mimi Rogers & Joe Son & Paul Dillon & Charles Napier et al, director Jay Roach
It is a folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do. Richard Whately, Apophthegms
Think nothing done while aught remains to do. Samuel Rogers, Human Life, 1819
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. Will Rogers, letter New York Times 29th April 1930
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once. Samuel Smiles, Self-Help, 1859
You didn’t want to do that. Harry Enfield, Harry Enfield & Chums, serial character impersonation, BBC 1990-1998
I’m never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the Roster of Those Who Do Things. I don’t do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don’t even do that any more. Dorothy Parker, Here Lies, The Little Hours
The secret of getting things done is to act. Dante
This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvellous in our eyes. Psalms 118:23
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. Matthew 7:12
Insomuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Matthew 25:40
Go, and do thou likewise. Luke 10:37
That thou doest, do quickly. John 13:27
Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. Galatians 6:9
To do good and to communicate forget not. Hebrews 13:16
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. James 1:22
We can’t help what we do really. Wolf Hall V: Crows, Henry, BBC 2015
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. Daniel Webster
Sometimes it is more important to discover what we cannot do than what we can. Lin Yutang
If I could only do something, some little thing before I die, some little thing for progress or people maybe ... It might make up for all the years I've been lying fallow. East of Eden 1955 starring James Dean & Julie Harris & Raymond Massey & Burl Ives & Richard Davalos & Jo van Fleet & Albert Dekker & Lois Smith & Timothy Carey & Harold Gordon & Barbara Baxley & Lonny Chapman et al, director Elia Kazan, Will