Trying Quotes

I try to approach making movies in a way that it's about the making of them and not the result of them, if that makes sense.

I don't think "Reganomics" will ever fully end. I mean, Reaganomics, to put it simply, was trying to get low taxes for wealthy people. And wealthy people are still there pushing for low taxes.

I'm not trying to take more of the pie for myself. I'm trying to make the pie larger for everyone.

Never, never try to scope the market.

We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.

What sucks the worst is . . . this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.

Every writer has his own voice. Other than that I'm always trying to do change-ups and publishers haven't always been happy about that.

I don’t know why we insist on pain when pain is so often easy to eliminate. It’s funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we’ve committed some crime.

Empathy took the edge off, and the truth is, we need our edge. Our edge is trying to speak to us, and we are too, too good at shutting it up.

I try not to take for granted how lucky we are to have life and breath and opportunity. Once we've got that, we can conquer anything.

I'm not a "what if." I want to just do it, try it, give it my all, and if it's not meant to be, I can accept that. But I had to do it.

Remember, the greatest failure is not to try.

The greatest wonder is never being able to know what will happen next. No matter how hard you try, the future will always be ahead of you.

I grew up watching James Bond and Star Wars and I just love that kind of action. I love trying to see if *I* can actually do it.

I was trying to think of a word that was not offensive. Yeah, Harry [Elfont] is right - it is kind of a different MTV for sure.

I'm a goner, a kid who stays up half the night trying to figure out the horror of the world and trying to survive it.

Trying to defend religion by invoking science is like claiming that three plus four equals ice cream.

As a director, you always want things to look good. You're always trying to make things look tidy. That's what we're all trained to do.

There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish.

I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.

I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.

Sometimes I try to do too much.

I try to visit stores because it's important to meet the teams and to hear the comments of the salespeople.

A lot of women say that they want to get to feeling about themselves the way I feel, because when I'm on a roll, I'm hot, I'm really good. I try to tell them, I don't have a fix.

I have an air mattress. It's great because if someone tries to suffocate me in bed I can just poke a hole in it and use it to stay alive.

If you are trying to impress a woman, leave any sort of show farting out of the equation.

I always try to just be honest ... As opposed to artifice or manipulation.

I'm always excited to try something I haven't done.

I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there.

I don't think I was ever...trying to kill myself but I knew that if I'd ever gone too far...I wouldn't care.

Now I know who you are U got nothin' on me, I see I should've known it from the start You can't tell me lies Don't even try cuz This is goodbye Goodbye

I always try to keep a positive perspective on what's valuable and the importance of restricting that immediate gratification and, most importantly, that who you are isn't the stuff you have.

I try to be as clear as I can be.

It became sort of a snowball effect, with guys trying to deal in their own way with 9/11, whether it was drinking or whatever.

People are disappointed that you aren't exactly who they thought you were, as opposed to somebody who's just walking around trying to get some laundry done.

I don't know if there are topics that I unconsciously avoid, but as soon as they pop up in my writing, I try to take on those topics, whether or not I publish the poems.

Writing is performative - and while, yes, the words in essence will be there "forever," poems are often about ecstatic moments rather than trying to pin down a particular truth of an event.

If you try to breastfeed and it's not working, then you don't feel particularly good about yourself.

Art that I like the most is born out of free association. I try to let my mind open up and see what comes out.

I'm old enough to never say never. I never had a grand plan with what I was going to do. There are some movies that I would like to be involved with, but I'm trying to be a working actor.

I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction was mixed, however, as people were trying to figure out which one was which.

Drop the veneer periodically and be like "OK, I'm an imperfect human. Let's try to get through this."

The Left will destroy what is good to try to make what is perfect. That is the motto of the Left

[Having monologue] are talking to somebody even if it's just to yourself, convince yourself if that's what you're trying to do.

Trying to be like my uncle, because I was an only child. He and my cousins were everything to me.

There's something so glorious in giving control to the world. I think that's what I'm trying to do in my films-control the world but also let it be chaotic, let there be life.

There's one rule that I have on my movies, which is that anything that you want to do, you can do. But! There's a flip side to that, which is that anything I want you to do, give it a try also.

I'm not chasing money, so I'm not looking at just trying to stretch out a deal artificially just to have a certain number.

You have an amazing ability to depress me sometimes, you know that?" "I try my best.