Trying Quotes

Part of walking the line as showrunner is trying to please people and still be true to what you believe creatively.

Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

Romantic Egoist What's better, an idiot who never tries... or an idiot who at least takes a shot?

Tamaki: You're the one giving up without even trying.

If I have more creativity that I want to get out of me, I try to find other ways than pursuing solo records so much.

You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such an amazing place.

I'm not an actor who can constantly pick and choose, I try to get the best of what's there.

It's not just about waking up and trying to be a star... It's practice, practice, practice.

I think no matter what you do, a certain amount of people are going to call you a sellout, somehow, you know. If I ever start trying to make a living on it.

Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.

That's the job of our line. Get it deep, cause some commotion, be physical and try to get some garbage goals.

It's not better to give than to receive. It's insane to try to give and not receive.

In business, you try to solve problems.

We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.

Remember when you're out there trying to heal the sick, that you must always first forgive them.

Trying to create a next world war, he found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor, he said I never engaged in this kind of thing before, but yes I think it can be very easily done.

I went along with it, and wanted to appoint a significant figure in Malcolm Fraser. I didn't have high hopes that they'd be able to do anything, but something was worth a try.

The best advice I could give someone trying to get into the comedy field is to take advantage of every opportunity you have to work to hone your skills.

I kind of do it in my head, then I'll try pieces of it on stage and if it looks promising, I'll put it together.

You can't guarantee that you'll make a great movie, but you can make a greater effort than I made at trying to see that the basics are there.

All I've ever done is try to entertain my way through a life that often has a huge amount of heaviness in it.

We try to invest in companies that are putting together environmental programs and working to improve their overall social and environmental self.

If you don't know something, admit it. But, try to impress them with what you do know.

Your parents were always trying to get you to be careful when you were a kid, and that's all pervasive in this society.

I don't know if it sounds arrogant or whatever, but I'm just trying to get better numbers than last year.

We weren't trying to walk him; he just wouldn't swing at any bad pitches.

I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say

Once in a while, I try to sneak in something less known anyway.

If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.

Stand-up was interesting to me at the beginning, because I was trying to parody it. My early stand-up was really Andy Kaufman-esque, and then I became the very thing I was making fun of.

The bar for being shocking doesn't even exist anymore. What am I going to do to shock people? Seriously, try to get The Fisting Musical off the ground? Its really at this point, there is no bar.

I try to stay away from certain stuff - I'm not a perfect human being. I try to represent myself as much as a good person could. I stay around the positive people.

When you try to be everything to everyone, you accomplish being nothing to anyone

I think I'm a living embodiment of, 'Don't try to push me around or squash me,' whether its how I talk to a record label or in my relationships.

I'm not trying to be something I ain't. That's right. I'm me.

If you watch it, you should watch it with other players and try to find moves, like it was before. Now on many sites you watch together with the computer and the pleasure is gone.

Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.

That's so difficult, to try to deal with every hater. I don't expect people to like my music whatsoever. How I deal with it is, I don't give them fuel.

I'm trying to become a young CEO, to brand myself in television and movies.

I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you're allowed to make jokes. I don't want to live in some PC world where no-one's allowed to say anything.

What we're trying to do is address something I saw in Congress that was a major problem, which is to say that energy is arguably the most fundamental issue confronting our country.

You know, you try to be diverse, and try to have fun and round things out.

I believe locations should try to be and evoke the characters in a movie.

When you make content, you try things, and they don't always work. You learn from it and figure out what's next.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

The modern media environment is so overrun with bullshit and static and people trying to sell you stupid crap. It makes you want to bite yourself.

I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.

I try not to be hateful.

I don't want to be mean. I try not to be.