To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if I can write it; otherwise, I won’t want to. – Charles Palliser
When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn’t pleasant. I always think: ‘Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?’ But I have to remember the bigger picture. – Michel Gondry
If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don’t think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps. – Edwin Land
Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare. – Michael Moriarty
It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing. – Martin Fleischmann
People don’t get involved with local charities or politics because they think it’s hard to make a difference and the problem feels overwhelming. But I believe that if all I’ve time for this year is to write one letter to the local council, it’s still worth doing. – Monica Ali
Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there’s something worth doing, it’s worth doing well. – Donny Osmond
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all. – Gore Vidal
I think that’s a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it’s inspirational. If it’s something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it’s really not worth doing. – Carly Schroeder
Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing. – Frederick William Robertson
There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. – Kenneth Grahame
I’d rather be useful than rich. It’s more essential to feel you’re doing something that’s worth doing, rather than making a lot of money. – Juliet Stevenson
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world. – Margaret Mead
The psychology of fashion is interesting because we’re selling people something they don’t really need. We’re just selling them something that makes them feel good. Besides, there is nothing really new in fashion. Everything worth doing has been done before. – Leon Max
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. – Louis D. Brandeis
I’m lucky if I find one movie a year that’s worth doing, and when I do find one, it usually only takes 20-30 days to shoot. – Kevin Spacey
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. – Reinhold Niebuhr
I’ve always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively. – Robert M. Parker, Jr.
The challenge is what was making it exciting. You don’t want to do anything that’s too easy or that you know that you can pull off, otherwise it’s really not worth doing. – Robert Rodriguez
