Trying Quotes

I find it really disturbing to be watching a lot of the medium that I'm trying to work in. I prefer to be doing things that are farther away.

Find someone hypersocial and crazy and try not to follow them to their doom, but to make friends with their nicer friends.

I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be.

We have a lot of trans friends. We know lots of people who have been trying to [model]; we know a lot about it.

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE AND THANK EVERYONE WHO TRIES TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF VULNERABLE CIVILIANS

I'm big in my faith. I try to keep God No. 1 in my life.

You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won't go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time's up.

If you set up an environment where failing is encouraged then you want to try everything. It's obviously the best way to work.

I try not to read the Internet because it's mostly just a sea of hatred.

In real life, holidays are extremely stressful. They're the best of times and worst of times because you have got people trying to get along with people that you don't always get along with.

I never want someone to come out of one of my films and say, "Damn. I wasted an hour and a half of my life." I'm trying to avoid that.

Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life.

If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.

Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.

I was trying so hard. I would memorize the entire script, then I'd be lipping everybody's lines while they were talking. When I watch those episodes, it's disgusting. My performances were horrible.

Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.

One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.

I don't worry so much about the audience. I want them very much to be involved and enjoy the movie, but I try to just inhabit the character in a full way, where I can create a personal stake.

I try to do as many of my own stunts as possible. If you keep on taking yourself out of the role you play, you lose the thread of the character.

When you're trying to love two, it sure ain't easy to do.

Dear doctor, you must not only let the patient tells his story, but you should also try to understand it.

I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series.

I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.

A writer is trying to create believable people in credible moving situations in the most moving way he can.

We all know that the nation can't divide more than the people produce, but as individuals we try to get more than our share and that's how we get ahead.

Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.

So many actors spend so much energy trying to remember the lines. It's so foolish. Guys are the worst.

Anyway, I try to be a good guy. I try to tell the truth, but I'm not religious.

I don't watch rushes. My whole thing is to try to stay in the moment with the other actor, and to let it all hang. I'm not sure I'm right on that, though.

Advice is a peculiar commodity. Those who have the capacity to give good advice generally have too much sense to waste their time trying to get rid of it.

What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is.

I'm just trying to suppress my natural impulses and get back to work.

Just try to imagine what it would be like to be 300 million years old.

The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done.

I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things that on balance I did pretty well on.

When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.

[Donald Trump] will try to renegotiate the trade deals a little bit.

I'd rather have that dialogue right now than only the other one, which is starting at such a basic level, that we start rearranging stuff on the Titanic, trying to be less bad with ordinary stuff.

I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.

Through . . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship . . . .

God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.

Let us try what love will do.

We did it with passion; we didn't do it like everyone else. Teams nowadays are still trying to duplicate that, but no one has yet. We shuffled down and we did it. We did it in an unique fashion.

In real conversations, we are always trying to outguess each other.

Let the end try the man.

Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.

For conspiracy, I know not how it tastes, though it be dished For me to try how.

Mine honor is my life, both grow in one. Take honor from me, and my life is done. Then, dear my liege, mine honor let me try; In that I live, and for that I will die.

The day shall not be up so soon as I, To try the fair adventure of tomorrow.

Don’t waste your time trying to get into my head. There's nothing there.