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Love Quote by Al Lewis

"But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's the uniqueness of all of us. That's it"

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Al Lewis isn’t selling hustle culture here; he’s quietly dismantling it. The line starts in familiar self-help territory - “find something that you absolutely love doing” - then swerves into the real punch: “get to love the way you do it.” That shift matters. It rejects the idea that fulfillment comes from choosing the “right” passion or chasing the most prestigious version of it. Instead, Lewis puts the emphasis on craft, habit, and temperament: the small, stubborn particulars of how a person moves through their work.

Coming from an actor best known for a broad, comic persona, the message lands with a kind of backstage clarity. Performance is the perfect example of a field where many people love the idea of the job, but fewer can love the repetition, the audition grind, the nightly recalibration, the constant risk of looking foolish. “The way you do it” is where identity shows up: timing, tone, restraint, excess, instinct. It’s also where survival lives, because you can’t control applause or opportunity, only process.

The subtext is egalitarian and slightly defiant. Uniqueness isn’t framed as genius bestowed from above; it’s a personal signature built through attention and acceptance. Lewis’s blunt ending - “That’s it” - reads like an antidote to overcomplication. No myth of destiny, no grand manifesto. Just the radical suggestion that the point is not to become someone else’s version of successful, but to become intimate with your own methods until they feel like home.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Lewis, Al. (2026, January 16). But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's the uniqueness of all of us. That's it. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/but-find-something-that-you-absolutely-love-doing-138803/

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Lewis, Al. "But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's the uniqueness of all of us. That's it." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/but-find-something-that-you-absolutely-love-doing-138803/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's the uniqueness of all of us. That's it." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/but-find-something-that-you-absolutely-love-doing-138803/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.

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Al Lewis (April 30, 1910 - February 3, 2006) was a Actor from USA.

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