Trying Quotes

Every season we try to do something new. And not for gimmicks. We feel the show has to evolve and keep changing.

Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour are hard to resist.

American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy.

When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.

Directing is a constant test of your communicative powers. You're constantly trying to explain people your vision of what you want and steer these tiny little details into a cohesive thing.

In the early days you have a tendency to intellectualize, but you're really just trying to sound smart and score with the chicks.

I try to put all I am as a person into what I do. My intelligence, my emotion. I've done that in everything.

I think it's good to look at how people lived before, and then take the best bits of that culture and try to mix it in with your own.

I actually don't subscribe to the notion that comedy is easier than drama. When you're trying to be funny and you're not funny, that's really terrible. It's a horrible feeling.

You can't lose the essence of a song. I try to enhance it more than anything else.

I'm not gonna be perfect, but I'm gonna try stuff.

It's always a treat to have something that lets me explore a different period. I do try to be a stickler, as much as I can, but luckily the writers are, as well.

I'm not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that's become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.

When you involve yourself in a group like No Labels, …I think it is a positive step in the right direction of trying to get things done

Life is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand the container. Others, such as Kudra, seek to pry the lid off and hop out.

You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.

The funny thing is just the collision of genres, taking one medium and trying to ram it into another medium, whether it fits or not.

Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it.

I'm trying to reestablish my career and do great work and give my kids the life they deserve.

Acting is never done. We're trying to keep it real and make sure that you're entertained and it seems unrehearsed.

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

It is so important for me to try, and having tried I look back on failure and success as if it were all the same.

When you're a kid and you're trying to find your own voice, it's rather daunting to hear somebody like Howlin' Wolf, because you know that you'll never achieve that.

You just write and you don't try to make sense of it. You just put it down the way you got it.

I'm trying to learn how to write faster.

You're trying to get a comfort zone with the parents. You want the family to feel comfortable with me in charge of their son.

In a press conference, everyone is required to be like, "I'm just trying to do what's best for the team," but really?! It's a hilarious lie that everybody allows to be told.

I start my own frat, and try out for the women's swim team.

I'm thankful for all of my opportunities. But I'm not trying to have a career where I am hanging on one of Dr. Drew's rehab shows. I can go home.

You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal.

I instinctively try to protect people from filth.

I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes.

What I really search for is something that I really love hearing, something that's my own private game: If I find a song I really like, I try to do a definitive version.

What the commission that myself and Leon Panetta is trying to do is analyze this in two respects. First of all, what's the right military response and security response?

What I am trying to say is that Jesus who incarnated God 2,000 years ago is mystically present and waiting to be discovered in EVERY person you and I encounter

We're all brought up in a world that isn't the best place for us to be in once in a while. There are so many problems and we try to overcome them all.

You just try to find something that interests you, and particular something that interests you that's gonna consume you the way that these big movies just really eat you up.

Usually my 'a-ha' moments are when I'm not trying to think of how to solve a particular problem.

I think movie makers in every country are looking for ideas. It's interactive. And sometimes we remake a lot of Hollywood films but we don't buy the rights, we just try to imitate those films.

I think the love scenes are very powerful and they're not trying to simply show the bodies of the actors but trying to reflect the inner feelings of the character so it's easier in that way.

The thing I care about is my weight - I'm as fanatical about it as a member of Girls Aloud. I weigh myself every morning. I know exactly what I want to be - 82kg - and I try to stick to it.

When you feel you have good although incomplete expertise, start trying things. If it's not working, try something else; maintain an experimental mindset.

Some people try to deal with money by pretending it doesn't matter, but financial pressure is something that affects us all every day of our lives.

The most important thing is what you already do. It's being authentic. It's being curious, trying to discover gifts.

Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is pain. I don't want you to go through that. So what I'm trying to do is save you decades of time by bringing you the best.

Its very hard trying to talk to an actor about how they should deliver lines, or cut their hair, unless it comes from a place of a strong point of view.

In other words, learn your Scruggs's rolls before trying to play like Bela Fleck.

You can tell when someone is just trying to use you. It becomes just someone who's hanging around. Whenever someone sucks up to me, it never goes anywhere because I'm too boring a guy.

I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes.

A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.