Trying Quotes

I like to take things that are boring-but-important and try to make them interesting. That was definitely what I was after with Eat The Rich.

When I left the Lampoon, I went west to try that out, and discovered that I hated it.They were awful people turning out awful product .

We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.

I try not to brand myself 'weird' any more because it sticks.

I'm still trying to do films about black women.

I'm just going to try to do the best work at whatever I'm going to be, and I don't think I'm going to be an actress.

I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.

I'm a pantser. I try to plot. I always try to plot. I end up with a few paragraphs that basically outline the gist of the story.But I never get much beyond that. I get too impatient to write.

I know from experience that I make the best decisions when I'm into the story and inspired by the story, not when I'm sitting there trying to plot.

I do try to plot about a chapter ahead once I get going. I have a list of upcoming scenes with little notes about them. But sometimes the story changes and I don't end up following that.

We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.

In these trying economic times, I believe the White House should have a minimalist touch: open floor plan, glass and steel, throw pillows, and an infinity pool.

I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.

Who the hell uses a burner cell phone when they're not trying to hide something? [..] Only dope dealers, and Hell's Angels, and Tony Soprano use burner cell phones.

Sometimes I try to lose my identity, and I can't get rid of it!

I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!

What is the character trying to say? Why? Be as specific as you can, using sense images that evoke something about the character. Try using the character's senses, even if the character is you.

Songs are your best teachers. I try to learn something from every song I hear

If he [Hugo Chavez] thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it.

I was raised by somebody with the perception of trying to allow me the space and show me the importance of knowing who I was and figuring out who I was and appreciating who I was.

The way your parents try to talk to you about politics and pull you to their side, that's an exciting moment in your family.

Anna looked at Brother Wolf. ‘I’d like to see someone try to put a radio control collar on Charles. It might be fun to watch on YouTube.

Don’t try threatening an Alpha. They don’t like it.

My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.

Trying is always enough.

A werewolf tossed me against a giant packing crate while I was trying to rescue a frightened young girl who'd been kidnapped by an evil witch and a drug lord.

I do hot yoga. I try to keep one hour a day where I have space to reflect and meditate and take care of me and what is going on inside. This way, I can be a better person to be around.

The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait.

We really try to have only one new particle per paper.

My back swing off the first tee had put him in mond of an eldery woman of dubious morals trying to struggle out of a dress too tight around the shoulders.

The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.

My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.

It's pretty tough on your loved ones to try to get back into a rhythm, especially when all you want to do is do nothing.

We try to spread the word about the charity by doing fun little stunts to catch people's attention. Like when Hank Green did a music video for us.

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.

If someone didn't want to be filmed, or my children said, "Don't film me anymore," [Steven Sebring] didn't try to sneak a shot or cajole them; he just respected their wishes.

I was always trying to pick guys up. I'd ask guys out and stuff like that. I had no pride. I was the biggest lurch at dances, waiting for the ladies' choice. I'd lunge at my prey like a baby wolf.

I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.

One day I was 17 years old and I ended up trying to commit suicide and I ended up in the hospital. As a teenager, that was a really scary thing.

If you actually do cold readings, it's very close to how people actually talk, because you're experiencing these thoughts anew every moment, and trying to make them come out coherently.

I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing.

I try to think about Elvis, Memphis, Oprah in the afternoon.

I try to think about Shakespeare, leap year, the Beatles.

Talking about music and talking about drums brings me back to my beginning and the simplicity, and the excitement about trying to play something and see if it works for your band.

I try to look at what KG does, what Tim Duncan does, what Amare Stoudamire does ... I compare and evaluate myself with them.

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

I think most writers can't really think about their work without a kind of revulsion. And I think that's probably why we keep going back and trying again, trying to do better each time.

It's a mind going over things, revisiting things, maybe trying to refine the original perception. You have to keep going a thing over in order to make sense off it.