Trying Quotes

I'm trying to find myself. Sometimes it's not that easy.

Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.

I'm trying to figure out if I love art enough to be poor.

I shop online because I don't like to try things on in front of an alien mirror.

There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts

People say you shouldn't eat carbs, but that's crap. I just try to stay away from white ones.

Why did people try to shush trouble away as if it were an unruly child?

When I was pregnant, I was so huge and people on the bus would get up for me. That made me feel so precious and valued and valuable. I try to treat everyone like they're pregnant.

Our early dating life consisted of trying to figure out whether we were dating.

I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.

It's no use trying to talk philosophy to our politicians. And I'm not a moral or political philosopher. I'm not interested in that.

You're trying to dramatize events to tell a story most effectively. That doesn't mean the events aren't true, it just means you're making them as dramatic as you possibly can.

I think as a filmmaker you try not to have any expectations other than that the film have a fairly substantial beginning, middle and end.

It's always a good collaboration between the actor and the writer and the director to try stuff out, during the process.

As an actor, you always want to try new things, so the fact that they set it up so that you can be doing different things each season is great.

Executives should blog if they have a vision they are trying to communicate, or if they are very visible in the media.

I just try to have a good time, enjoy my family, enjoy my life. I was having a blast when I was poor, and I'm having maybe a little bit more now that I've got something in the bank.

When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take.

I really believe in constantly trying to find and support new ways of watching independent art, because the old ways are not working as well.

Much of Satan's time is spent trying to make you remember what God has already forgotten. Reconcile, rejoice, and look forward.

No matter what, I think people are trying to better themselves, or to better their situation, or to find something new and exciting.

There has been times when you play in charity games where you have friends and you always entertain the idea of playing with each other and trying to team up.

I'm always moving forward creatively and don't like stalling, trying to find the perfect snare drum sound.

My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.

As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world.

I think I'm a shy, self-conscious person who thinks he's being looked at and tries to look okay. Not in a hottie, narcissistic way necessarily.

Kids pick up and absorb a lot more than you think they do. I try to do what I think is right, and I try to lead by example.

I think most people know the concept of difficult family situations. So I try to just ground a very big concept in something we can all relate to on some level.

I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film.

I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world. I was lost, and trying not to get into a fight every day.

I'm going to approach it as trying to do my best, but you can't do everything yourself. That's asking for bad things to happen.

Trying to get a read on Apple Computer is a lot like learning about quantum physics; you can never know Apple's position on a technology, and its direction, simultaneously.

I'm not a guy who is out trying to promote myself. It's really not me.

My view is, Democrat, Republican, it doesn't matter, my view is I'm in Washington to try to work with people.

Trying to coach kindergarteners in soccer is like trying to herd cats.

When you're trying to do character work that's different from what people expect from you, you're sort of in territory that is uncharted, and you don't know how it's playing all the time.

I try to do the things that speak to me in one way or another, and sometimes I'm even drastic.

I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.

When you're on the road, you sort of go crazy and being away from your family you get stir-crazy and lonely, so I try to keep myself involved as much as possible.

Trying to find the story within the story was hard. Filmmaking is such a reductive process in a strange way and you keep whittling away to what is essential.

I'm not trying to write a bleak and blistering screed against American civilization. I'm writing something that I hope is fun and satirical and full of possibility.

Sometimes, you just let the country have its way, and you don't try to determine the shape of the country. You sort of modestly step back and let the country figure out what it believes.

For the Democrats, they're trying to avoid having the [Ben] Sanders- [Hillary] Clinton debate over and over again. But, to some degree, they're sentenced to that debate.

I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.

None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.

Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.