Trying Quotes

I think when you've played at the level that I've played, anything outside the top 10 in certain aspects is just a number, unless you're obviously trying to get into tournaments and stuff.

It's like one of those dreams you have when someone is chasing you. You're running as fast as you can, and someone's trotting behind you, just out of range, trying to grab onto you.

I think when you first get a job, you're just trying to do what the last regime did, just to keep it going, as opposed to actually doing what you want to do.

I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

When I get the chance, I'm at the theaters all the time, trying to check out the latest movies.

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.

You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.

If you were really interested in being creative in teaching, it was possible to try new methods and that was really what we did in Goldsmiths - we used the freedom of the time.

As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do.

In this whole digital age, where everything is so exposed, rather than trying to keep something private, you try to get out ahead of the curve and limit the amount of gossip.

I waste a lot of my time documenting my "search for great esoterica" online. It gets so complicated trying to identify or give credit to all of one's influences.

What sort of difficulties would happen when people of different cultures try to come together to worship? Tiny little things such as let's tell jokes with each other.

There's always that sense of because we're so racially defined, if you're trying to cross the boundaries you don't fit into any particular space.

I was trying to write a straightforward book of sociological analysis, or at least cultural criticism, and I failed.

I'm just a skinny kid from Maywood trying to do my best. I never took anything for granted. I never wanted to come off like some kind of big-headed, conceited athlete.

After a lifetime of engaging in long, passionate discussions I have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of time trying to convince anyone of anything.

On the set I make jokes I can't get too involved, or it turns into sentimental soup. I try to keep it light.

Europe is acting in a very self-destructive manner, but is doing so because it's trying to be loyal to the United States.

Debtors will seek to cancel their debts. Creditors will try to collect, and the more they succeed, the more they will impoverish the economy.

No price is too high to pay to try to make the financial system go on a little bit longer. But ultimately it can't be saved, because of the mathematics that are involved.

Hosting a game show is so bizarre and uniquely its own thing. Anytime I'm hosting something, I try to bring as much of myself to it as I can, but it's always going to be incomplete.

My goal is to work. That's the goal of most actors or performers: to work and keep working, and do the best you can, and keep growing and changing, trying to improve your craft.

Things you never thought were going to turn into something end up being the most important things in your life. You have to learn to not try to control it.

If we don't invest now in building character into children we will surely invest more tomorrow in trying to repair adults.

We all have three characters: the one we really have, the one we try to convince the world we have, and the one we think we have.

It is really really important that you deal with Trump either by letter or by personal contact. Trying to deal with him on telephones or through the media is not a good idea.

Get out and about. Rather than going to the same gym and doing the same thing, it's a good opportunity to try different things.

ISIS, in some cases like Paris, may actually try to direct. But what it's really trying to do is inspire. So its directed activities are these inspired attacks.

It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw.

The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.

A common denominator among big guys like me who are trying to take care of our health is that we're not getting enough sleep.

The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks.

But try as I might, I never got to eat any of her pastries, and do you know, she never even offered me one.

When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as if I'm telling it to one person only, my best friend.

Don't try to run your life through a single straw. Someone, some event, will cut it off.

If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed.

I try to separate my personal life from swimming.

I don't like to be second in anything. I was trying, I just wasn't going anywhere.

I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .

I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater, a gardener, someone trying to figure out what to feed his family.

I really try to write as an ordinary person would, not as someone who's too sophisticated about food, or too knowledgeable about things.

I'm always gonna be an actor, so I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do next. I would love to make a documentary again someday, but I need to take a break from it.

Avoid too much intense color. Make sure you mix colors and try them out. It's always good to do a swatch.

It's so much easier to write for an actor than for an imaginary character and then try to fit that character to an actor. It doesn't work very often in my experience.

All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.

By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.

I like doing all different types of comedy - stand-up, sketch, movies, TV. I like to try everything.

I try to make each film a different film.

I do consider the individual things individual, in a way because that is what I do I guess, try to find out what is special about each medium.