Trying Quotes

I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.

Nothing is more diminishing than trying to control success or hold on to things.

Don't save something good for a later place. Don't hold back from your students, from the poor, don't try to keep anything for yourself 'cause it'll turn to ashes.

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

I wasn't trying to be a role model for anybody. I don't think that you can.

If you don't know my name and you don't know what movie I'm from, don't come ask for a picture while I'm trying to eat chipotle

As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things.

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times.

I'm in no position to try to tell people how to live their family life.

My attitude as an actor, because I'm a stage actor, is whatever the director tells you to do, you try it. You don't resist what a director is giving you.

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

When I direct I try to keep it a unique design of my own. Naturally you're influenced.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

If you think it's hard getting in, you should try getting out.

I try to retire jokes as soon as I can once I put them on an album. But I can't think of anything I just stopped doing for no reason.

Donald Trump's message to people is that he's a disruptive force that can descend into Washington as a nonpolitician and try to change some of the morass that happens in Washington.

Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.

It's only when people get involved, when there's money involved, that you have a lot opinions around you. I try not to listen to them too much.

I try to teach my kids to be open.

I try to find out what the guy's strengths and weaknesses are. Like in boxing, I'd be a counter-puncher. Whatever he does well, I try to take advantage of what he doesn't do well.

I can't be someone I'm not. I try to be a warrior on the court, but where I come from, being macho doesn't get you anywhere.

I used to get down on myself a lot if I missed a shot, and it would just break my focus. But now I stay mentally tough and try to just forget about that play and keep on going.

It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month.

I'm trying to remain unfamous.

For me, my films have already aged. When they're finished, I don't want to watch them. Of course, I feel protective, but I try not to attach myself to these stories.

It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.

With song titles, I try to keep a healthy sense of humor while saying something at the same time.

Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come out of my subconscious.

When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making.

I try to get my subconscious to puke out as much stuff as I can because I'm really not judging myself while making music.

It's the people that ultimately are less talented or have less confidence in what they're doing that then try to micro-manage, which lends itself to a less than ideal film.

Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.

I always try to practice what I preach. I meditate for fifteen minutes every day and do yoga several times a week.

For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.

When making a record, I could done a new face pretty easily and use all these different devices to hide who I am - or who I was - which really had very little to do with what I was trying to convey.

That's really what keeps me playing live - appreciation. And I guess I've made a lot of wiggle room for myself to try different things and discover what I'm doing, and the audience accepts it.

I backed up all my pictures on my iCloud so you can’t see me when I die / I left my body somewhere down in Mexico / Give ‘Find My iPhone’ app a try.

I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

Im still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but thats just the way I am.

I try not to become friends with musicians, but life happens and dinner happens and going out happens - it becomes interwoven in L.A.

Im always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. Thats how I roll.

Home is wherever I am. People make too big a deal about where you live. I try to be grounded in myself. Home is another way of saying 'a place where you keep all your stuff'.

For me, what is most important is the element of surprise. If I can surprise you with every film of mine, that is exactly what I am trying to do.

Other countries have outeducated us. They have made this a priority. And a big part of what I'm trying to do, frankly, is raise the profile of education and get America to wake up.

I would like to say, however, that a man might be walking around lucky and not know it unless he tries.

I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.

I have settled down in this border area; I am trying to find distinct standards of shape, and I long to experience, formulate, and evoke this dark, heavy, tranquillity.

It's like you wanting to marry Miss World and she doesn't want you, what can I do about it? I can try to help you, but if she does not want to marry you what can I do?