Trying Quotes

I think the press gets lazy once a certain kind of image is out there. It just adheres, rather than the press trying to break that down.

Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.

I try to think about me, as an audience member, and it [inspiration for movies] comes from there.

It's always about trying to do something that's different and not repeating yourself because then you lose your creative stamina. You need to have new challenges.

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

As actors we try to find different sides of ourselves.

I try to help founders as much as I can, but so many of us we won't even take meetings with people who still just have an idea, because everyone has an idea.

You're trying to make music, and then at the end of it you give reasons for everything.

How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose - and fearing that they will make us lose?

There is a certain thing that you have to just stick to the plan, stick to what you want to do, and you try to work with studios and executives that they get it.

I find it very stupid that teenagers could only see caricatures of teenagers but they couldn't see films that you try to be a truthful context, a truthful portrayal of teenagers.

I think that at this moment, I am trying to live the moments we're passing through. In the future, I will see where the future will take me.

What I am trying to do right now is simply focus on what is happening right now. Obviously, I would hope there are future opportunities.

I know how I want to try and live my life. I know I dont want to leave any darkness behind me.

We try to be as much involved in our product as possible, because then it's us.

I appreciate an audience that reacts to the music, even if they jump on stage and try to beat us up, I think that's a fantastic reaction. I think that they're really hearing something then.

I think he was trying to produce more of a... sort of a cheaper image.

Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.

We're not a band because we're trying to be the Mother Teresas of the music industry, out to serve everybody. We're a band first and foremost because we love playing pop music.

I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat. I was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined.

I try to take care of myself, and I lead a healthy lifestyle.

Why give up before we try?

I try to be aware of the life that surrounds me as much as my mind permits me. It's the only time I have new blissful moments, and I love bliss.

If one really believes that the metaphysic one adopts has much to commend it, then one should obviously try to persuade others of its truth or acceptability!

I tend to write first thing, and then do my drawing later. I like to draw at night. But often I go for long stretches without drawing, because I'm trying to figure out what I'm writing.

I try to be very much in control when it comes to work. I have a strong work ethic.

I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things.

I'm always trying to bring as many poetic properties as possible to the essay without making it too overburdened.

Kate [DiCamillo] tends to be more reluctant about change. I convinced her to give it a try and she came over.

Keeping a diary is advanced-level living. I spend way too much time trying not to curl up in the corner like a giant fetus & weep to keep a diary.

Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets.

It is hard to be number one, and it is even harder to stay there because everyone is trying to knock you off the top.

Try to keep an open mind.

When you're playing live, those people who you're trying to please and reach, they're right there giving you feedback. And you don't get that feedback in the studio.

I can't imagine trying to be in recovery. I mean it would be hard enough with just life going along in a nice way, but then when awful stuff happens, how you maintain the strength to get through it?

I like people trying to do two things at once.

Turn," Liz said, trying not to hide her impatience at being forced to read at non-speed-of-light pace.

If you die of pneumonia,I'm pretty sure there are at least a dozen guys who'll try to kill me and make it look like an accident (Hale)

Whatever I'm doing, I try to give it everything.

For months I had been trying to be less myself.

I’m not a bloody cockroach. What’s all this about? What are you trying to find out?

What's your angle?" I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding. "Isosceles," Jack quipped.

He hadn’t been peeping intentionally; he’d been trying to sneak into my room. So that was slightly less creepy, I supposed.

The minute I spend any energy defending myself, explaining myself, or in the worst case scenario, trying to please those who are criticizing me, I will, you know, just fall off a cliff.

I do what I want. I try to be nice to everybody. When I fail, I try to apologize.

I don't try to make anybody outside happy.

I'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief.

I have different routines for different types of chaos. When I find myself swamped with work and surrounded by people, I try to carve out time to walk my dog alone so I can organize my thoughts.

Trying to film a movie on a diet is hard enough, I can't imagine how it would be on drugs.

When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.