Trying Quotes

Since I left Chicago, I'm a lone wolf. I put on the record player and sit and try to play on the guitar. I've got five guitars here and can't play them, but I'm always whompin' around.

First lead [in a movie] requires a different approach like trying not to give it all away in the first scene. It is a skill, a learned skill.

Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.

Thomas: Is it [my brain] fixed? Brenda: It worked, judging from the fact that you're not trying to kill us anymore.

In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren't unusual. Now it's no use trying to export without having something that's unusual and better.

We acquire a testimony of the principles of the gospel by obediently trying to live them.

The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.

Take the risk and do whatever you can do and try not to get caught. If you do get caught, do it again.

And even though people try to pretend that pain doesn't do anything to them, none of us can really handle it. Everything bad we do in our life is because of pain of some kind.

I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American.

It's when you are trying to make something that is "authentic" as opposed to real - people who appreciate music for the wrong reasons tend to compartmentalize stuff.

Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?

It's a real stumper to sit around and try to think in your own head, but when you go into somebody else's head that takes the foot off the breaks. You can think in someone else's head.

I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.

There's no real reason for me to be so obsessed with trying to understand the true nature of things. You can live a perfectly happy life being utterly confused and not knowing.

Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.

You really try to work the character out and spend time in the headspace of the character. That's what I did.

I led the way toward the crowd, trying to look casual, like, Fly? Me? Nah.

We try not to encourage demonstrations of his mastery of the gaseous arts.

Fang! Angel?" i yelled, not even trying for stealth. i was storming the castle, not stealing the jewels.

Great, they give blind kids guns," I said, trying to lessen his horror. "I don't even let Iggy have a gun. Usually.

There's nothing more dangerous than than someone trying to act for the greater good.

You need to be disciplined and you need to try to occupy a zone of acting that is always quite scary because you don't think you're doing anything.

There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is.

I'm a really anxious person, so I tend not to keep secrets. I tend not to even want to hear them. It's too nerve-wracking for me to try and keep things from people.

The U.S. is excellent at importing cheap products from the rest of the world. Let's try importing some human capital instead.

If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.

The idea of trying to predict what people will or won't respond to is risky.

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

It's good to try stuff. I wrote a book that I threw away, and I think I just wrote it so I could try stuff in it and not be scared

Saying "muff" to someone and trying to be romantic is incredibly difficult.

I didn't want to be known as the reality-show star trying to be an actress, so I kept a lot of the failed auditions to myself.

Some photographers shoot hundreds of pictures in a row and you need to be able to move from pose to pose very quickly while trying to make it look effortless.

I don't think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I'm certainly out there trying.

If you do eight shows a week it's just too difficult to try to put everything that you can together.

All of us black comedians are trying to be mainstream, but you don't want to lose the edge.

I always telling people to "not try this at home," because most of what we do on MythBusters is really dangerous. Consequently, we can't encourage people to try that stuff.

I'm not used to be the adult. I'm not very good at being the adult. To some regard, I wanted to just hang out and joke around, like I would normally, but I had to try to find the movie to shoot.

God, why do I give interviews to 'the Guardian'? They always try to dissect you, and I don't really think about stuff in the way that you're asking me these questions.

If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.

I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers.

Ya called Fargo yet?” “No, I’ve been too busy trying to destroy the Guild and corrupt Simon’s soul. Being evil is a full-time job.

I suppose you retire from trying. If you retire from trying, you think, "Maybe love will just come my way if I don't want it anymore."

What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.

While the cast of characters stays the same, I always try to add in new information so readers get to know the people they care about better with each story.

While I hear from readers all the time that they love learning new things, I never want to do an "info-dump." Boring! I try to include enticing details and skip all the rest.

In this age of remote-controlled pushbutton war, we must all try very, very hard to remain human beings.

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.