Trying Quotes

I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't.

I'd like to have the script in a much better place from day one of shooting, rather than trying to continue to work on it while you shoot it. I think those are lessons you learn on any film.

As a filmmaker, I've had films that over-achieved and I've had films that under-achieved. You always go in trying to do your very best.

I try to talk as little as possible, unless I see something that I might disagree with.

I try not to make any boundaries. I try to let all art influence me.

I think [Donald] Trump is going to try to be fairly low key, but the problem is that I don't think he is going to very well with [Hillary] Clinton attacking him fairly relentlessly for 90 minutes.

You can waste your whole life trying to be everything to everybody. Pick your passion. And let them pick theirs.

As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.

I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in.

Getting to do different genres of movies means you're gonna have different types of situations. So I want to try and do every type of genre there is out there.

It's human nature to work on ourselves, to get better in mind, body, and spirit, so there's nothing wrong with trying to live life to your fullest potential.

And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.

Not only am I trying to be a daddy, but also a friend, not be the old fogey thats slowing everybody else down... not for a while, at least.

I'm not much of a water skier, my legs are too skinny for that, so I just try to tube and have fun, just ride.

I like trying things, I am kind of adventurous and I like thrill seeking.

Any band on their first couple records is just trying to keep up with their inspiration.

When you try to put everything into music, there's no room left to try to make you think we're cool. We know you think we're cool.

I'm a very tactile learner, so I need analog index cards, moving them all about, trying out various sequences for the book's architecture.

I know that being positive is a choice, and I try to make that choice every day.

I try to help other people get through difficult times in their own lives.

You may be whatever you resolve to be - determine to be something in the world and you will be something. " I cannot," never accomplished anything. "I will try" has worked wonders.

Try taking a stand on just one leg. You need to see both sides.

I am hoping to be able to lend my support to a Sickle Cell charity in the near future, as I want to try and help raise money and awareness about this disease.

Failure isn't really an option because, as my grandmother used to say, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, "Why are you trying to starve yourself?" To keep myself from feeling love, from feeling lust, from feeling anything at all.

And so you must grant to God what is God and not try to think of what you have lost, for that way is madness.

Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book, and go about trying to buy up all existing copies.

Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.

If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a lock when he touched me, I lose everything.

I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul.

Does it bother me that I'm attached to 'Three's Company' 30 years after? Not at all. All we were trying to do was be funny. How can I complain? That's all I wanted to do.

God's grace will never be available to you to become another person. He created to be you - the best "you" you can be! Forget about trying to be someone else.

People who pity themselves think, 'Why would I try to do anything? I'll just fail.'

It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

Making a movie is trying to capture moments of true reality.

Try to live without something digital - without digital code for about two hours, very hard to do if you're awake.

I'm trying to think if there was ever the Lenny Bruce-y, observational, George Carlin kind of magician: "You know what I hate is ..." I don't think that ever existed.

Well, every movie is an experiment. And the only way you can grow at what you're doing is to take chances. You can't try to stick with what worked last time.

I definitely learned to embrace the quiet moments onstage from Garry Shandling - relaxing and not fighting with the crowd, not raising your voice, not ever trying to win them over.

I'm just trying to be truthful and collaborate with people who have interesting things to say.

I don't think it matters what the frequency is of me writing or directing a movie. It doesn't really matter to anybody else. I'm just trying to put good things out there.

There's something so scary about trying out new material and being completely comfortable jumping into the abyss with a comedic idea.

If anything is leaking, I try to plug the hole.

And I like the passion that people have when they're trying to prove they can make a movie or be a movie star.

I think it is important that we all try and be green where it is possible; an awareness of the world around us can never be a bad thing.

Most senators are just going to work and trying to do a job.

If you read a script enough, especially a good script - I try to read it 40 to 50 times before you begin so you get a sense of the arc: what happens before, what happens after, what happens during.

You have to kind of roll with the punches. That's why I think work begets work to a certain degree. I just try and keep busy.

I would rather die then try to live without you”, “May you always love me and want me but never have me”, “May you never love anyone but me”.

We're trying to divide groups or decide that some of them are truly victims and some of them are truly aggressors.