Trying Quotes

I think as a mature artist, you're probably always trying to undo the compromises of one's self [in general]. It's not necessarily to do with youth.

Sometimes when I look back on myself on those earlier records, there was so much effort going in, so much trying. With this, I was trying to make it much more laid back.

No matter how hard you try to be present at home, you're always doing the things that you have to do.

...because when beauty awes you, you must halt and try to catch your breath and your staggered heart.

I know I've abandoned the Amish lifestyle, but I still keep a lot of those beliefs ... I know I've stepped outside the boundaries a lot of times, but I still try to remember what's important to me.

I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celebrity, but at the end of the day I want to empower my audience and say, 'Hey, I am just like you.

I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!

I try to cook dinner, but it's difficult when I'm working.

If you run into trouble doing what's expected, people sympathize with you, while if you try something else and flop everyone says, You see?

When a man says he likes a woman in a skirt, I tell him to try one.

As I look around the West End these days, it seems to me that outside every thin girl is a fat man, trying to get in.

An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon.

My goal is to try to be as happy as I can - going through every day just as it is.

Obviously my career's important to me and I'm really, really passionate about trying to keep it.

If you can do something with your eyes closed, it is time to try something new.

When I first started out I actually was trying to use music to promote feminist ideas and at certain points, anti-violence against women and girls-type causes I was involved in.

I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.

The roles that I am attracted to are women who try to do something about their lives, and not a woman who waits for some circumstance or man to come rescue her. I have no interest in that.

There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip through life unchanged.

I've got a penny-ante talent, out of which I try to drum up a living for myself. And what nobody seems to realize is that it's just as difficult to get a bad idea as a good one.

War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. I'm trying to unpack why, to look at what it means to be a hero in the context of 21st-century combat.

I try to always stretch myself to fit the characters that have been presented.

I think I'm still trying to find my voice as a filmmaker and finding stories to tell.

There's a perception that good writing is writing which runs smoothly. But smooth-running prose can work against what you're trying to express in a novel.

It's really hard not to think too much. If I try to control the sled too much so that I have perfect lines, I'm really slow.

Republican governors trying to suppress the vote.

I've never really compared myself to anyone who's a big star - I'm not trying to be a fashion icon or get famous.

I'm competitive with myself, and that goes hand in hand with how I present myself. I'm not only trying to put one foot in front of the other, I'm trying to put my best foot forward.

Many people think I try to be like Lady Gaga but what they don't know is that I'm a Britney Spears wanna be.

I'm not coming out trying to prove anything to anyone, like, 'Oh, I'm in assless chaps!' or 'I can't be tamed!' I've already been through that phase. I started at 23, you know?

I feel like I have a little bit of a fresh ear when creating music. I'm not trying to be like anything else, cuz I have no idea what anything else is like!

They think that I was like Amy Grant, when actually no! The label went bankrupt and maybe sold a couple hundred records and that's about it. I was just trying different things.

I'm definitely not trying to be, or am, a poster child for anything so structured. But I do have my own personal faith most definitely.

Art can be close to the bone, but we are not our work. Try not to identify your core ego with your art.

I try to always go for something... very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on the screen, which is essentially a third-person medium.

I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again.

I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we've been trying to generate material.

A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.

As actors we're always trying to use our creative imagination.

Trump is trying to tell all of us Americans that we are our own problem, not him. And that's not true. He's the problem.

I'm not here to cast aspersions on anyone. I'm trying to unify the party, not find fault.

Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.

Sometimes playing TV can be really nerve-wracking, and I think I tend to handle that by trying to look at my band-mates as frequently as possible and ignore everything else.

It's easy to shortcut when you get busy explaining the why's of the world, but it's very important to try.

When you're supported by millions all over the world, you can either go nuts, or try to feed off the goodwill.

Trying to keep up with current slang sucks.

I respect anyone who achieves something that countless others have dared to try before and failed.

I love someone who tries to boss me around.

With each movie [Twilight saga], we went in trying to explore that character a little deeper, or in a different sense. But, at the same time, there was a comfort in knowing that you know this person.

I love trying to play the not-confident guy, the guy against my normal character, because that's when real acting comes into play.