Quotes About Do What You Want

“Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.”

— Denzel Washington

“Do what you got to do now, so you can do what you want to do later”

— Denzel Washington

“Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”

— Jodi Picoult

“When you do what you want, not what you wish ... ' said the first raven.
'When you no longer seek your reflection in others' eyes ... ' said the second.
'When you see yourselves face to face ... ' said the third.
'Then,' the ravens intoned in unison, 'you will have found what you truly seek.”

— Adam Gidwitz

“When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.”

— Candace Bushnell

“You have such interesting thoughts. No wonder witches are ephemeral. You drive yourself crazy. You should simply do what you want without the soul-searching. It will be easier in the long run, Rachel Mariana Morgan.”

— Kim Harrison

“If you're somewhere new every day, you feel no accountability. You don't care who you hurt. You do what you want and damn the rest because you won't be there for the fallout.”

— Kim Harrison

“I'm an escapist. I'm not a planner; I've never made a decision about anything in my life. The good thing about Africa is that you can escape forever. You can do what you want without someone looking over your shoulder.”

— Peter Beard

“What kind of performance would your car deliver if every morning before you left for work you scooped up a double handful of dirt and put it into your crankcase? That fine engine would soon be a mess, unable to do what you want it to do.”

— David J. Schwartz

“If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.”

— Gordie Howe

“If you want to do what you want to do, you cannot work. So art is going to be finished, and this is the will of the Islamic republic: to not have any artists or art and close the doors of all the cinemas and music and everything.”

— Golshifteh Farahani

“The main thing is the ability to control your instrument, which, in the actor, is yourself. Look the way you want the character to look. Sound the way you want the character to sound. Once you've trained the instrument to do what you want, you're in control, and you're free.”

— Geraldine Page

“Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have.”

— Maria Bartiromo

“I actually don't know anyone who wants to be famous for fame's sake, at least not anyone I respect. But you need to have a certain amount of power in order to be able to do what you want.”

— Michael Ian Black

“- I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do ... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do!
- Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Success is the freedom to do what you want, with whom you want, when you want, wherever you want.”

— Conan Stevens

“Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.”

— Usher

“It's very hard to find men's clothes that do what you want, especially when you go through them as quickly as I do. I need them to be flashy, but I never like to be overdressed. I need to make a statement, but I hate wearing too many clothes.”

— Mika

“There is nothing in your background that inherently holds you back or means you can't achieve what others can achieve. You are the master of your own fate, and if you work hard, you can do what you want.”

— Nicola Sturgeon

“Making your own records is really satisfying in the sense that you more or less get to do what you want. It may not sell or whatever, but on an artistic level, the only people that you really have to fight with are the people in your own band.”

— Adam Schlesinger

“If you don't want her to go, you should say it. Those jerks who can't say a word no matter how much time passes ... I just don't get them. If they're doing whatever the hell they want ... then you should do what you want too. I hate those jerks who fool themselves into thinking that just because they clam up, nobody knows what's going on with them!!”

— CLAMP

“There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial.”

— Clint Eastwood

“This is America - you're allowed to say and do what you want and what you say and do defines who you are as a person.”

— Lee DeWyze

“I hate politics. I like to write about it, but to get involved in it, to try and make a lot of ignorant people do what you want them to do, waste of time. Go and write a book. It's more important and it'll last longer.”

— Wilbur Smith

“You don't have to destroy me. Do you? I'm only a woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I've been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Prosperity is the ability to do what you want to do at
the instant you want to do it.”

— Raymond Charles Barker

“If life can end in one minute - so damn quickly with no damn warning - you better do what you want to do now right this minute. Because your next minute might not happen.”

— Linda Barnes

“I look at Kitty, who's braiding Chris's hair in microbraids. She's being extra quiet so we forget she's here and don't kick her out. 'I think that as long as you're ready and it's what you want to do and you're protecting yourself, then it's okay and you should do what you want to do.'
Margot says, 'Society is far too caught up in shaming a woman for enjoying sex and applauding a man. I mean, all of the comments are about how Lara Jean is a slut, but nobody's saying anything about Peter, and he's right there with her. It's a ridiculous double standard.”

— Jenny Han

“You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.”

— Eddie Van Halen

“With kids, they don't do what you want them to do when you want them to do it. Organizations don't necessarily, either. You've got to listen. You've got to learn how to influence.”

— Ellen J. Kullman

“I love women like Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton, who kind of go out on a limb and do their own thing. I find it very inspiring and it allows you to do what you want to do.”

— Malin Akerman

“The movie doesn't do what you want it do. It just grows and then you have a movie at the end of it, hopefully.”

— Robert Schwentke

“Grab whom you must. Do what you want.”

— Seymour Hersh

“The thing about film is that your eye is selective. Film isn't. You have to make film do what you want. Simply photographing something doesn't do it. You have to know how to apply light and know what it does on film.”

— Gordon Willis

“You can do what you want, at home. But when you go out, keep it together.”

— Stefano Pilati

“I think it's really important to do what you want to do because in the long-run it's your career, you want everything to go well and you want to be happy with what you're doing. It was really important for me to take control of my career.”

— Cher Lloyd

“You have incredible lives ahead of you. You have incredible things that you can accomplish. If you feel that, you will have an amazing life. Do not let anything build a wall too high for you to get over. And I know that might seem very cliche, but I've had alot of friends who had hurt themselves. And when you're younger, a lot of that stuff is so temporary. You can get through it. You're stronger than you think. You'll ALWAYS be stronger than you think. Feel with your heart and do what you want.”

— Corey Taylor

“Surround yourself with people who do what you want to do, and eventually you'll wake up to find yourself doing the same.”

— Justin Kan

“Don't let anyone dictate what you should and shouldn't wear. Do what you want. Who cares?”

— Ian Astbury

“The best way to get people to do what you want is not to be too particular about what you want.”

— James Richardson

“Addictive behavior is kind of the inverse of procrastination: procrastination is about not being able to do what you want to do, addiction about not being able to not do what you don't want to do (drink, use drugs, etc.)”

— James Surowiecki

“Therefore, be honest with yourself as to why you are choosing to do a particular thing. Then, do it gladly, knowing that you are always getting to do what you want. The statement "I have no choice" is a lie. You can choose. You simply do not prefer the alternatives available to you, for whatever reason. So you select the outcome that you most prefer.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

“Rock and roll by its nature is sexual. So girls playing rock and roll is saying to the world, "We own our sexuality." I think that pop music is sort of about "you can do what you want to me" kind of energy, while rock and roll is "I'm going to do what I want to you" kind of energy.”

— Joan Jett

“Forget what you are supposed to do, do what you want to do.”

— Ginnifer Goodwin

“As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do”

— Leonardo Da Vinci

“And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want.”

— Lilith Saintcrow

“To me, true prosperity begins with feeling good about yourself. It is also the freedom to do what you want to do, when you want to do it. It is never an amount of money; it is a state of mind. Prosperity or lack of it is an outer expression of the ideas in your head.”

— Louise Hay

“Do what you want, if it is something you did regret the next day, sleep in late.”

— Wiz Khalifa

“Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.”

— Margaret Mead

“I think there are [gay players] right now, and if they're looking for a window to just come out, I mean, now is the window. My view on it is, yes, I am a Christian, but to each his own. You do what you want to do.”

— Robert Griffin III