Trying Quotes

There are lots of things in the folklore, like they can only be killed by a silver bullet, that don't realistically work, if you're trying to say they have existed for hundreds of years, unknown.

I try to do different roles and try to immerse myself deeply and see what they need to be that's different than the last one.

I do always try to find the goodness in somebody. I can't possibly believe in somebody if they don't have a core.

Real life, raising kids and trying to raise them to be good people takes a lot of work. It's all about (appearing) effortless, yet there's so much effort. You do it the best you can.

I'm not trying to snowboard for other people anymore. That just kind of comes with age and growing up. That's helped me a lot. Some of that started right after the last Olympics (in Vancouver).

I try not to date musicians. It's all I've dated. Every guy I've dated is a musician. Obviously, it's not working.

I don't want to get pigeonholed, and I want to try my hand at anything that excites me. I'm not just a Disney writer.

It's been a lifetime of trying to have less beef. Beef comes very naturally to me. I was born with my dukes up, but that's not always necessary anymore. I have to retrain myself.

The reason I act is because I'm trying to understand why people are as they are.

The reader is not the customer. The retailer is the customer. So I try to have as much interaction with the retailers as possible because those are my customers.

Hollywood Regency is a label some people put on me, but I consider myself a modernist in that I always try to make the work feel fresh.

[Donald Trump] is trying to be elected president of the United States and he's doing that with or without certain people's endorsements.

One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.

What a few fans are trying to do is cause trouble.

I'm really trying not to feel I'm getting spoiled, because the way I look at it, since I'm not a main character of any of the movies, I realize just how fortunate I am.

When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates, you have to think, 'You are a complete idiot.'

I need to try to get a lot of things going 'cause you never know what's gonna hit.

I find it is happening in different ways to every industry in the world, and positioning yourself for that, and trying to get ahead of that, is a big conversation right now.

In some cities they tear down buildings to save taxes. They might try tearing down some taxes to save buildings.

For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.

I always try to be a champion of social change and anything that brings awareness to a really dire situation.

I've heard from quite a few people, you sense that there is an ownership of the [ Cinderella], it was so personal for so many people, so I was interested in trying to work out why that was.

I raised my hands, trying to shush her. "Don't shush me," she said, eyes blazing. "I hate being shushed.

Education in philosophy is energy speaking to energy, a higher perspective of spirit that is trying to awaken its next natural generation to something beyond the stupid appearances of things.

Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.

When you're on MTV Asia, you're like royalty. When you walk down the streets of the Philippines or Indonesia, everyone wants to try to touch you.

What I was trying to construct was relative symmetry, where it seems clear that the shapes have arrived through consideration.

I'm over dudes trying to look like they're in boy bands.

The flow of people into the United States into slavery, it follows the other types of immigration into the United States, so people who are trying to build new lives, trying to build a better life.

My first restoration was on Napoleon, trying to put the French version in with the English version, and it was most unsatisfactory.

You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come.

You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.

Don't try so hard to be hip. When the Church finds out what is cool, it is not cool anymore.

With everything I do, I just try to be myself.

I'm not trying to have my whole life out there in the media.

If I continue to just get to the playoffs every year, I guess you could say I arrived, but right now I'm just trying to find my way.

I feel good doing it. It's not like guys are stripping me at half-court or I'm just losing the ball dribbling. I think I'm handling the ball pretty well, just trying to make good passes, man.

I'm just trying to make a good record that my fans will dig.

Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns.

I'm trying to do what Eddie Murphy did for his generation. You have to show people, 'I'm different. I'm not just a comedian.' I'm trying to become a rock star.

I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It's going to happen when it's supposed to happen. I'm not rushing it. I'm not trying to make it happen tomorrow.

Did I try to embarrass other people? Now if it's about other people, guilty guilty guilty guilty.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

Expect me to continue what I've been doing, which is trying to take over the world.

I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.

I'm not trying to make excuses for David Seaman, but I think the lights may have been a problem.

Sir John Hall was a multi-millionaire when I came back to Newcastle. With all the players I've bought, I'm trying to make him just an ordinary millionaire.

I've never felt completely satisfied with what I've done. I tend to see things too critically. I'm trying to get over that.

Trying is not enough. We have to go out and set goals and measure definitive progress so that four years from now we are in a better position to add new voters to our base of support.

I just can't imagine that it's only a coincidence. I think they feel that it's kind of getting out of their control, and they're trying to tighten it back up.