It’s not what you do, Ben. It’s who you know. Death of a Salesman 1985 ***** starring Dustin Hoffman & John Meldovich & Stephen Lang & Kate Reid & Charles Durning & Louis Zorich et al, director playwright Arthur Miller, Willy
You can’t do it unless you can imagine it. George Lucas
Imagination means nothing without doing. Charles Chaplin
What then must we do? The Year of Living Dangerously 1983 starring Mel Gibson & Sigourney Weaver & Bill Kerr & Michael Murphy & Linda Hunt & Noel Ferrier & Bembol Roco & Paul Sonkkila & Ali Nur & Dominador Robridillo & Joel Agona & Mike Emperio & Bermardo Nacilla et al, director Peter Weir, little guy
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. Arthur Ashe
Step by step and the thing is done. Charles Atlas
The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement. William Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age
Teenagers complain there’s nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it. Bob Phillips
You must do the things you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated, then hold fast to duty. Julian Barnes, Arthur & George
But what I do I do because I like to do. Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
We must judge men not so much by what they do, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to do. Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
9Miserable age, where only the reward of doing well, is the doing of it! John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
Maybe there ain’t no sin. There ain’t no virtue. There’s just what people does. The Grapes of Wrath 1940 starring Henry Fonda & Jane Darwell & Charley Grapewin & Dorris Bowdon & John Carradine & Russell Simpson & O Z Whitehead & John Qualen & Eddie Quillan & Zefie Tilbury et al, director John Ford
The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done. Arnold Palmer
You can change what you do, but not what you want. Peaky Blinders s3e3, Tommy, BBC 2013
What do you think he did to me? … I can still feel what he did in my body standing here right now. Game of Thrones s6e5: The Door, HBO 2016
Everything you did brought you where you are now. Where you belong. Home. Game of Thrones s8e3: The Long Night ***** Bran Stark to Theon Greyjoy
What do I do here? I should have written it down. The Office US s4e18: Goodbye Toby I, Creed, NBC 2007
You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue. John Updike, Rabbit, Run
I did the things, but uh I did a lot of other things too. Weiner, 2016
I love it when people say something can’t be done. I like to prove them wrong. Arnie Schwarzenegger, cited Facing Schwarzenegger s1e5
I just wish I knew what I’m supposed to do. The Matrix Reloaded 2003 starring Keanu Reeves & Laurence Fishburne & Hugo Weaving & Carrie-Anne Moss & Jada Pinkett Smith & Gloria Foster & Harold Perrineau & Monica Bellucci & Lambert Wilson et al, director Wachowski brothers, him to her
If we never did anything we shouldn’t do, we’d never feel good about doing the things we should. House of Cards s2e4: Chapter 17, Netflix 2014
Everything we’ve done, everything, is exactly what we had to do. House of Cards US s5e7: Chapter 59, Frank to Claire
What I do, I do for my family. Breaking Bad s5e15: Granite State, Walter to Saul, AMC 2012
I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really … I was alive. Breaking Bad s5e16: Felina, Walter to Skyler
We all have someone important we’d do anything for. Gomorrah s4e4: Episodio 4, Gennaro to business woman, with mother hostage, Sky Atlantic 2017
What are you doing? What are you doing? The Sinner s1e1, him drags her from stabbed victim, Netflix 2017
They kept turning it [music] up. ibid.
I just did it. I don’t know why. ibid.
‘We were doing something we were told we couldn’t do.’ Storyville: Maiden, crew member, BBC 2019
You can have all the fucking lawyers you like but it’s not going to change a thing. We’ve got you. You’re finished. You’re done. Shadow Dancer 2012 starring Clive Owen & Andrea Riseborough & Aidan Gillen & Domhnall Gleeson & Brid Brennan & David Wilmot & Stuart Graham & Martin McCann et al, director James Marsh, Mac
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. William James
You will be damned if you do – and you will be damned if you don’t. Lorenzo Dow, 1777-1834
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done. David Lloyd George
We had to make it look as if something is to be done. Yes, Minister s3e5: The Bed of Nails, Sir Arnold to PM’s chief adviser, BBC 1982
What have I got the power to do? Yes, Prime Minister s2e7: The National Education Service, Jim, BBC 1987
Say little and do much. Receive all men with a cheerful countenance. Shammai, Jewish scholar and teacher
Don’t let ’em push you around. There are no rules. There are no laws. Do whatever you want to do. Do it. Jim Doors on stage, cited The Doors – The Story of LA Woman, BBC 2014
It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something. Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn 1869
Why don’t you do something decent for a change? A Bullet for Joey 1955 starring Peter van Eyck & Edward G Robinson & George Raft & Audrey Totter & George Dolenz, director Lewis Allen
So now what do we do? Breaking Bad s1e2: The Cat’s in the Bag, Jesse to Walter, Netflix 2008
What do they [politicians] all do? Martin Durkin, Britain’s Trillion Pound Horror Story, Channel 4 2010
I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be. Princess Diana