Trying Quotes

Every time I make a film, I try to do it slightly different. If you're not 100% engaged and interested, then it's not gonna translate into a successful film.

When you're going with a huge dramatic disaster film, try to keep the narrative as simple as possible.

I prided myself on working as hard as I could, trying to overcome a learning diability.

I can't try to throw 110 miles per hour. I've got to pitch under control.

Trying to be creative, yet having to deal with the day to day - I mean, there is a lot of stuff to deal with. Like sitting at the computer and sending emails.

I try to avoid doing movies where I act with tennis balls. It's ultimately incredibly tedious.

The only mistake guys can make is to try too hard with their appearance. There's something very unmanly about it.

I feel arrogant trying to give people advice.

My mission in life is to try and get to a point where my insides world is not affected by the outside world.

I have spent far too many years trying to make everybody like me. It's not possible. People can say or think what they want.

For so much of my career I've been trying to find little things and make something out of it.

There are rumblings of Captain America 3. I don’t know what’s going to happen there. I’ve got to find the time, man. I’m trying to stay home and I can’t.

Not looking really to do some big giant action movie that's just trying to make a lot of money.

You can do as much diligence as possible before you go somewhere to try to protect yourself and the people around you.

I am doing my job and trying to win a game for my team. I shouldn't be getting racially abused; it's silly.

I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one day I picked up my alto and I said, 'Where have you been?' and I said right here for now on!

It takes a profound hypocrisy to try to reconcile for others things that you can't reconcile for yourself.

Screenplays are the hardest thing to try to get right. They look so simple when they work, but they really destroy your brain cells trying to get them there.

Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.

I've never been a big soloist; I just put in what needs to be there. I'm more of a rhythm player who plays lead - or tries to play lead.

Listening. That's what music is about. You hear it. And I'd listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.

Part of what I'm doing with generations is that I try to express in my work pieces of my growing up years that I can look back on with great fondness - specifically, a sense of family.

Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."

We're all trying to get to the same island — whether you swim, fly, surf, or skydive, it doesn't matter. What matters is when the red light goes on.

I like to try anything... You have to do the experiments to find out what the formulas are.

I didn't really start publishing books until I was 40 because I was busy being a McDonald's employee. So there's always a sense of trying to make up for lost time.

For me there was never a lot of glamor involved in being a junkie, it was about trying to hide the puke and bloodstains on my shirt.

I never think that being a woman is so hard. Maybe don't think about your gender and be confident as you go forward rather than try to single yourself out as some underserved part of filmmaking.

I think that I'm trying to hopefully change my children's ideas about what is possible, and about what is possible for them.

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.

The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try.

Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.

As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.

When you take on a role you try to do as much as possible beforehand to get your mind into it. Just to prepare because it's a daunting prospect to go six months or whatever.

I don't go to movies, I don't own a television, I don't buy magazines and I try not to receive mail, so I'm not really aware of popular culture.

I try to keep that quiet unless it is asked but yeah, I have a girlfriend and she is a great girl

Whenever I have time, I try to get in the studio and write, whether it's for me or other artists or my catalog of music. It's definitely one of my favorite parts of the music industry.

I want to try to become friends with Russia.

I don't hang out with the Hollywood cool people. I'm not out trying to make friends with people because they're famous.

I'm not trying to do stuff for my kids necessarily all the time, but when you get the odd opportunity to do something for them that they could enjoy its cool.

I'm inspired by people who are so sensitive and vulnerable that they try to cover it up.

I have a feeling that very soon I'm going to fail very, very big. I'm going to try something and everybody's going to be like, 'What was she thinking?

L.A. can be very superficial, and it's hard to meet cool people here. I try to stay away from the glitzy side of the business and have a normal life as much as possible. I keep to myself.

I like to challenge myself and I like to try new things.

But you have to have a vision of what kind of military you are trying to build in order to get the [budget] cuts to make sense.

Be original. The world will try to fit you into a mold, but carve your own path.

I'm trying to create a relationship with myself. I feel good being married to myself right now!

I try not to read blogs. The comments are extremely harsh.

We weren't trying, but we were definitely practicing - and not safely practicing.

I don't want people walking out of a movie thinking I was trying to act or be some movie star. I want them to think, 'That might make me like Jessica a little bit more.'