Trying Quotes

If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart.

You might be a legend one day if you just keep your head to the ground and never get overzealous and start thinking you've outdone yourself. That's the space I try to stay in.

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.

My suggestion for a fast style upgrade would be to embrace a pop of color or pattern. Try layering a bright, pullover knit on top of a dress shirt with a subtle or bold pattern.

Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

I am glad that people are trying to have a rational conversation about drugs.

We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.

You can't really just think, "Oh, I want to make something that is going to appeal to every single person in the world." You have to just try to make a movie that comes from your heart.

In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.

I just try to do me, and I feel like it works.

Together on the path of love, we can try to make a small difference in someone's life. What else is there to do?

To be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by traveling west.

There is a vast territory between what we're trying to leave behind, and where we want to go - and we don't have any maps for that territory.

The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.

I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.

Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts.

I'm trying to think overall. Some of our stories [Black Mirror], I think you're right in that they don't tend to have a message.

We are born to a time. What you do with it is on you. Do the best you can. Try to be good. And live.

I try to hang on to as much mystery as possible. How can we go through our lives not wanting to have any element of surprise?’

By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.

It's no use trying to be different than you are.

When something original works, then everyone wants to copy it. But if you're trying to do something that no one's ever seen before it's frightening.

I'm just trying to do my part before I get hit by a bus.

Outside of performing, (a comedian) is someone who is analyzing life, thinking about it and trying to be observing so much. In my opinion, it can make you feel on the outside looking in.

I've been able to see the world many times over. The thing I've learned is less is more. I travel as light as possible. I try to carry on.

Ever since I saw sexy Beast I've been trying to get the cockney thing down.

On The Others, very atmospheric and probably mysterious is how I would say it felt to be on the set. It felt just a little uneasy, the atmosphere that we were trying to capture.

Those who want to be offended don't have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.

A sure sign of ineptitude and malice is manifested when one's attacker is willing to cover himself with mud in order to try and make some of it adhere to his target.

I want to be surprised and entertained by a movie, so that's what we're trying to do for the audience. Obviously, we also have to sell the film.

Either you vegetate and look out a window, or activate and try to effect change.

I gotta get working, you know? I've been too busy. I've been trying my hardest, but it's really tough.

Sometime we'll try and reach for things we know we each want and don't deserve.

Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.

The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.

No mat­ter how much I try and hide this, bit by bit, I start to fall apart.

The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.

Just trying to keep everything in check, you know, it gives me a lot of respect for closers. You're doing that 75 times a year, so that's pretty impressive.

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

If you don't make mistakes you are not really trying.

Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome.

Going out on the field frantic isn't going to help you score points. You have to try to lead your team.

I try to carve my own way so the actors who come after me will say, "I want to do it like Columbus did it."

Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people.

Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another.

I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more.

So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating