Trying Quotes

He didn't try to take the net off its hinges with that header.

For me, the key is always trying to find the connection between the audience and the character I'm playing. That's important to me, in any work I do.

She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.

I do try and curb my mouth, but I find it really hard. I wonder how many jobs I've talked myself out of!

Part of what the food industry does with public relations, just like the chemical industry or the oil industry, is to try to erase their fingerprints from their messaging.

Try to be accurate about stuff.

I'm a pretty boring person. I have a dog that I love, and friends that I love, and a family that I love. I'm just trying to spend as much time with them as I can.

There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but you can see what a mess they all really are.

Life isn't about constantly trying to scale peak after peak, it's about living at a high plateau & thriving

Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.

You could say that the Hell's Angels have a bad reputation, then you talk to a biker, and he's trying to join it. It just depends upon who you're talking to about reputation.

The reason statins are so helpful is that even those who are trying their best to reach their target and still can't do it have something else to rely on.

People ask what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, "I'm getting even

Where there's more of singing and less of sighing, Where there's more of giving and less of buying, And a man makes friends without half trying That's where the West begins.

To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema.

I like to keep my options very open and try not to focus on trying to get something. That's just how I'm playing it and it's worked so far.

Athletes try to get other athletes out and they should have no false starts.

If you never try anything new, you'll miss many of the world's great disappointments.

I'm just moving clouds today, tomorrow I'll try mountains.

I'm usually pretty good about meeting people. I try to remember they are human, too!

I got to try things that I might've been uncomfortable doing if I had been in a larger setting with a studio and producers looking at me.

Everybody in recovery smokes. If you don't like smoking, don't even bother trying to get sober. Just stay drunk.

No matter how much I try to be plain, people don't accept me, so I might as well be fabulous.

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

History Coming too close Is monstrous, like a doll That is alive and bigger than the child Who tries to hold it.

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.

There is no excuse for not trying.

I'm trying to move an aircraft carrier here, I'm not just steering the speedboat.

My experience is that our intelligence officials try to do the right thing, but even with good intentions, sometimes they make mistakes. Sometimes they can be overzealous.

Knowing that "me" is inextricably linked to blackness, [I try to enjoy] the process of expanding beyond the expected boundaries set by existing culture, norms and media.

It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. Im not a politician.

It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.

My work doesn't speak about individuals (it's not portraiture in the traditional sense), it tries to speak about life in general in cities of the West - which is where I live and what I understand.

If one door closes and another does not open, try climbing thru a window, either way, make your way in.

The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.

The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide.

I do worry about how newspapers respond to falling circulation figures. I'm not sure that the answer is for newspapers to try to cater to whatever seems to be the fad of the day.

We learned that a product doesn't sell just because you're trying to do good in the world. You still have to have a healthy distribution, a good marketing strategy, and price the product properly.

I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I try to get inside my stories.

Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken.

Be independent and don't try to think someone is going to save you or look to someone else to make you happy or look to someone else to complete you.

I'm really vulnerable onstage because it's just me. I'm not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way.

I think it gets uncomfortable when you try to act like you didn't just tell a joke that bombed.

Well, I really don't know what the secret of success is but I can tell you that the secret of failure is to try to please everyone.

The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos.

How come regional pandering only works in one direction, right? You never see a Southern politician trying to win votes in New York State by saying, 'I read books and make a mean vegan meatloaf.'

We're not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it's too late for that. We're trying to keep it from becoming a complete and utter calamity

But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.

Don't be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.

I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.