Trying Quotes

I built a career on my archetype, and I'm grateful, but I'm trying to stretch.

I'll try to be careful, but I know I'm not immune, cause I just can't imagine how I'd ever come to harm with this feeling that I'm feeling as I'm drowning in your arms.

I have a friend who says the best boyfriends are ones with intimidating, good-looking older brothers. The boyfriends try harder because they're so insecure. Maybe I'm the female equivalent.

I don't really pay too much attention to designers, I know what I like and I just try to find it, and I always try to find a cheaper deal because I have a tendency to be a cheapskate sometimes.

I'm working all the time. When I'm home I try to split my time evenly between resting and preparing for another tour, and writing stuff.

Fear is something that can really hold us all back from different things in life. It's important to notice what your fears are and try to conquer them.

A bull will try to outwit you. It will stop and hook when the last thing you expect from it is that it will stop and hook.

Just because people don't meet you doesn't mean they're not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.

We actors can't take the credit. We love to try to claim the credit.

Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.

I don't just try to be funny.

Agitators, organizers, activists, intellectuals aren't bound by those rules. We're not trying to figure out, how do I thread this particular needle?

I think I am a radical. I have never deviated from that. By radical, I mean someone trying to go to the root of things.

Anyone who wants to vote probably shouldn't be allowed to vote. Voting is the first step towards zombification - trying to get something without actually working for it.

People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby.

I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is not a funny place.

Most scientists are without exception adorably quirky, and one of the ways of making it more accessible was to try to get readers interested in the person.

Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.

If you try to deliver a funny line in a funny way, it comes out as wacky and you ruin the scene.

[Voters] are trying to make up their mind on who has a better plan for the economy, whose presidency would more positively impact my life?

Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.

College was a wonderful time - except, of course, when it was trying to teach you things.

Our children are trying to tell us something. And we are not listening.

I'm not in politics. I'm really not a public figure. But I'm trying to be a little more cognizant of my surroundings.

Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.

Why is Mitt Romney not bragging: 'I covered all these people'? Why can't the Democrats sell the idea, we're trying to make you well? Is that such a hard sale?

Death is the monster we all fear, yet with each day, we walk toward it, and can't help doing so; we can't help but walk toward the one thing we're most trying to avoid.

Dealing w/ Hamas is like dealing w/ a crazy woman who’s trying to kill u – u can only hold her wrists so long before you have to slap her.

We take one group of people and we demonize them. Trying to turn people against our Muslim friend and neighbors.

I did very much like [Barack] Obama's attack on fossil fuel subsidies for fossil fuel companies. We asked for that in demonstrations and petitions, and now we'll try to push it forward.

A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting.

I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.

I try to be alert and available. I try to be available for life to happen to me.

My theory is that, just like with omitting a final comma in a list when not essential for meaning, publishers are trying to save paper and ink or pixels on-screen.

I can never enjoy Sundays, because in the back of my mind I always know I've got to go to school the next day. It's like trying to enjoy your last meal before the execution.

HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.

What I try to do in writing any character is to put myself in his position.

That was the hard part of having kids: trying to be on their schedule, then fighting to get to sleep while they are sleeping.

For me, what makes great actors, always is how truthful they are to the character and the story and the emotion that they're trying to tell.

I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work.

Try to live in a place you like.

What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.

The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it.

I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.

I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.

Under no circumstances will any supporter try to tell me what I should do. That is why I have the track record that I have got.

I'm from Minnesota! I used to work Knuckleheads at the Mall of America as a stand-up. I spent New Year's there once. I'm not trying to namedrop.

I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good teachers made an impact on me.