Trying Quotes

As an actor, I love being pushed. I love the feeling of, "Oh my god, I have to keep trying. What else is there to do?".

I was always trying to find the balance between trying my best and being an incredible parent. I literally realized that it was chaos - but it was happy chaos.

I have a personal motto that I live by, which is feel the fear and do it anyway. If you fail, you get up and you keep trying again.

That's all this job is, Daine," she explained. "Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better.

Giving up control and just trying to be happy at the moment has proven to be the best thing for me.

You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.

If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be.

On a daily basis, jeans and t-shirt is still sexy, but it doesn't look like you're trying too hard.

Don't die. Don't die! You don't have to win. You don't have to keep trying! Just don't get hurt anymore, please!

[Princess Margaret] was always trying to radicalize things.

A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her.

Sometimes if the people are up for trying something that I'm interested in, it can be a great experience.

When you fail to succeed the first time, keep trying. It's called life.

Are you appalled at existing conditions? Don't waste your energy trying to change conditions from without! Change the Human Heart from within.

Keep trying. It's only from the valley that the mountain seems high.

At the end of the day, Fool's Gold is a label that, when I hear something I like, I try to grab it for the label. There's a ton of great music coming out.

I am trying my hardest to stay away from the horror movies just because I feel like people are thinking that's what I do, that I'm a scream queen. I'd like to stay away from that.

In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another.

There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

Trying to put music out there in the world is a pretty exciting, yet terrifying, thing and I've just been through the ringer.

I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.

Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.

Whereas, if you just say all right, let's try to bring in some recurring people, maybe that will alleviate some of the burdens on the budget moving forward.

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.

I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.

Sometimes it's very hard to turn off my brain especially when I have an eighteen hour day. I try to stop working by 10 or 11pm but you know sometimes there is nothing I can do about it.

It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

Don't be sorry. Just try not to let him touch you. When he touches you I see red. I can't take it. I don't want to see him or anyone else touch you

Listen to me, Blaire. If you try to go anywhere I will chase you down. I will become your shadow.

I’m trying to make myself let you go before Ms. Mary comes to get you, but you go and shiver at my touch and weaken my resolve to stop holding you.

I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can't wait for the chance to try again.

So many people and institutions are against homosexuals that, as a homosexual, you can't waste your time by trying to convince them that you're a good person.

I don't need to push myself. I don't need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat. I'm trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.

A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.

What I try to do is to appreciate every job I have while I'm working on it.

I carry two traditional pipes and I sing my songs and pray that us as human beings treat each other with respect. So when it came to trying to portray a connection on screen, that's what you see.

I try to make all of my roles likeable in some way.

When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.

I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything.

The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.

I don't think there's any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that - that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.

I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.

I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.

I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed.

I find that more and more I'm trying to entertain myself when I'm working, because I know the work's going to go to a horrible place.

It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.

We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.

I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?