Trying Quotes

It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that we are not saving the world. We are just actors trying to entertain people.

So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.

I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.

When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West.

Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.

When we speak of God or achieving union with God, we are often merely trying to put that great thing into a small container. One cannot drive a camel through the eye of a needle.

Mission + tools. That’s really what it takes to have focus...you fail at focus because whatever you are trying to focus on isn’t important enough to you.

I'd like to be the role model to teach other people who have Down's syndrome to be actors and actresses and to be themselves and not try to be a big shot.

It was the month of May and there was warm sunshine dripping through the holes between the clouds, like the sky was a broken blue bowl and a child was trying to keep honey in it.

I just like testing myself. I just have that thing in me. Whatever it is that people tell me I can't do, I've gotta try it.

If you have the opportunity to try different things, you should try different things and step outside your comfort zone and see what works and what doesn't work.

Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which I see as a process that's never-ending.

I don't like having noise swirling around me. Loud noises bother me, so I try to stick to the outside of a room.

I was still very invested in the team, very invested in how we were doing. I realized I needed to take a step back and start focusing on myself, my head and my eye, try to get my health back.

Sometimes I get worried I'm getting too caught up in the nauseatingly oily smoothness of my own line, when all I'm trying to do is make it as clear as possible.

Realize your own potential and try to live out your expectations of your potential.

I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.

In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing... but that's impossible.

I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.

If you're an actor, a hard thing is to stick around, to stay viable. I try to do that by taking the opportunity to do something different every once in awhile.

I get paid by the year, and I try to earn my money.

You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview.

I really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.

I try to make sure that, when I'm writing, I don't put too much Cody in it. But I don't want to lose it either.

If you're playing someone who's got marital problems, you have to play someone who's trying not to have marital problems. So, you've got to get into the problem first.

Sometimes there's a general arc that you want to try and get better the longer you do something.

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

My job is to try to advance American foreign policy, to try to advance the president's agenda on democracy and human rights.

The Path is not far from man. When men try to pursue a course, which is far from the common indications of consciousness, this course cannot be considered The Path.

I try to, in my own fallible way, speak the truth.

I think, Tom Friedman is right, and I think that we have to - we have to have a serious public dialogue to try to shift public policy in that regard.

The only good excuse for not succeeding is DEATH! Unless you're trying to be a ghost. Then it's LIFE!

. . . don't rewrite unless you know what you're trying to do.

You can't please everyone and trying to do so is the kiss of death.

I'm not trying to represent the whole Latino community. There are too many different cultures, and Latinos will always say, 'My family doesn't do that.'

People are more dangerous when they're calm. When theyre loud and aggressive that's usually an act and usually trying to compensate

I've got a lot to look forward to. I'm trying to be the best father I can, and that's a pretty important role. Some would say it's more important than stopping pucks.

I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.

You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.

Try to improve. Don't expect too much, but don't feel discouraged either; keep up your enthusiasm; you will make progress.

There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from these four mountains of birth, old age, sickness and death.

We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature.

It can be annoying not to know who you are, where you came from, or what you're doing. To try to create a character without a whole lot of information can be taxing.

I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.

I spent a long time trying to make it in the commercial world hoping that commercials would then lead to movies. That was a less-travelled path at the time, although it's very well-travelled now.

If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art

In my experience of doing physical scenes, half of your energy is spent on trying to get the other actor to enter into it physically with you. Most actors don't want to hurt each other.

There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.