Trying Quotes

Even when I'm trying to be straightforward and honest and my comments are innocent, inevitably they get turned into something sort of salacious.

Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.

If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.

Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up.

I was aware of my success, but I never stopped trying to get better.

I try to have no absolute nos. I love french fries, I like a good burger, and I like pie. And that's okay.

The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.

If you're really on some heavily addictive drug, you think about the drug, and everything else is secondary. You try and make everything work, but the drug comes first.

When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it's no longer truth--it's our story. The story may be true for us, but that doesn't mean it's true for anyone else.

To succeed in comedy you ultimately have to put in the hours and get lucky - The amount of people who are able to break through is so small a fraction of the amount of people trying.

Only when we try to love God will we see our utter inability to do so. And only when we understand that inability, will we begin to be in awe of His great love toward us.

A lot of people don't belong in our clothes, and they can't belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely.

Play and practice like you are trying to make the team.

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

My beauty routine stays the same; I try to be well hydrated and rested. Most importantly, I always try to make a little time for myself!

I enjoy experimenting and trying new beauty products. It is fun to try new looks!

People ask me for my autograph after a show. I'm not famous, I think they're messing with me. I think they're trying to make me late for something.

I don't like things that are obvious and so I always try to introduce something that is wrong, something that is different. Just beauty by itself is too easy.

If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.

If we look at the black record of mass murder, exploitation, and tyranny levied on society by governments over the ages, we need not be loath to abandon the Leviathan State and . . . try freedom.

I love being called NTRs grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didnt try enough or maybe because I like it this way.

I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar.

Never, in the history of the world, has there been such abundant opportunity as there is now for the person who is willing to serve before trying to collect.

I'm a work in progress. I'm trying to be better.

You just become adaptable and try to lead a good life in ways that make sense, regardless. Because I know at the end of it, if I'm going to meet Jesus or Allah or Buddha, I'm going to be all right.

I always like to try to bring whatever I can to what is on the page, so I like to find as much dimension as I can, in each role.

I try to make myself look as normal as possible because I like people to relate to me.

Sometimes you may feel like you are just about to realize your goal only to fall short. That is no reason to quit. Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.

I have one mascara that I use religiously, and I refuse to try anything else, and if they discontinued it I would probably cry. Cover Girl lash blast, in the orange tube.

Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.

If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.

When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.

Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.

My earliest memory? Trying to use a red jelly bean as lipstick.

One cannot tell when he is going to be healed, so do not try to set an exact time limit. Faith, not time, will determine when the cure will be effected.

Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.

I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.

I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.

Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go, and fix it along the way.

You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - whats written and not written.

The thing I have to keep in mind and I try to keep in mind about myself, about anyone, is you do the best you can do at the time.

I don't always prepare such rich meals. Sometimes I'll just serve a simple quiche, salad and dessert for dinner. During the week I try to eat lightly.

I try not to have too many opinions; I just marvel at the world we live in.

The biggest danger is trying to put too much pressure on yourself, trying to get in too good shape.

In the week before a race, I try to stay away from germ areas. I keep disinfectant wipes in my bag for when I have to use a supermarket trolley or something like that.

I feel that students always learn more from each other than they do from their professor. They learn by doing and not by trying to soak up information from one person.

The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us.

If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.

Then I would have an occasional cigarette and then I started back dipping. I started dipping last year. My family has asked me again to stop, and I'm trying my best to do that.

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping