I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.
I don't want to be like Spider-man or Batman, the do-gooder kind of thing.
The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did and listen to everything she said, and she was too taken up with rooting out the pride she was prone to feeling in her own holiness to notice any other failings she might have had. She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.
I started my career as an urban planner, working for the city, doing what I would call 'do-gooder' things, particularly for low-income neighborhoods.
The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part.
I know it's easier to portray a world filled with cynicism and anger, where problems are solved with violence...It's an easy out. What's a whole lot tougher is to offer alternatives, to present other ways conflicts can be resolved, and to show you can have a positive impact on your world. To do that, you have to put yourself out on a limb, take chances, and run the risk of being called a do-gooder.
She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.
What, am I supposed to run around in a little red cape and save the world?
I found myself starting architecture with a deep social, Jewish, liberal conscience, and the belief that architecture is for the people. It was a do-gooder base; I was born and raised that way. I was for blacks, whites, Italians, Poles, whatever.
For years, friends in Springfield, Missouri, have remarked on the physical resemblance between Brad Pitt and his only brother, Doug. But the two share a deeper similarity: their commitment to charitable causes.
I'm always playing the nice guy in most of the projects that I do.
I'm a do-gooder liberal.
I'm no savior, and I'm no Robin Hood.
