Trying Quotes
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I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.
Willem Dafoe
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If a player is trying to intimidate a skilled player on your team, what do we want? We want our skilled players playing, so we shouldn't be doing that.
Bobby Orr
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I'm always consciously trying to make what I feel is missing.
Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
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Trying to lead an interesting life, a fruitful life, is a big challenge.
John Patrick Shanley
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I was trying to get into the business from a young age, but I don't think I really realized how much I loved it until I booked my first movie and found myself in New Zealand for six months filming Bridge to Terabithia.
Bailee Madison
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I have to be clear with myself and very conscious of what I am trying to say. Misunderstandings will always take place; it's unavoidable.
Jose Padilha
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Every time I take the mound, I try to win. So that's what I'm trying to do.
Masahiro Tanaka
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We're not trying to change the world; just music.
Jonathan Davis
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For the better part of my life, I was always trying to manufacture somehow what I would consider 'living.' Because I grew up sort of upper-middle class and I didn't relate so much to that as a life, and I wanted to really find 'living.'
Alex Ebert
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People sometimes turn out to be almost the opposite of how they present. It isn't because they're trying to fool you or because they're hypocrites. It's because they badly want to be that thing, and so they'll try to be it.
Mary Gaitskill
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Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together.
John Breaux
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Don't get diverted by trying to do things for your own advancement. In other words, don't be lured into responding to incentives.
James Mirrlees
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I try to keeps things pretty light, try to make people laugh. I find it difficult to keep trying to promote myself. I know that's the whole point of it, to promote my music, but I like to use it to be funny and silly.
Ingrid Michaelson
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Trying to meet new women, it's always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that's single and trying to rebuild that connection.
Drake
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Nothing is more diminishing than trying to control success or hold on to things.
Anne-Marie Duff
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Fast tempo is essential for success; do it, fix it, try it!
Brian Tracy
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If you're trying to make a recipe that you're not even going to bother tasting, you're doing something wrong.
Bryan Fuller
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Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour reading, they want some entertainment and a sense of achievement. So that's what I give them. That's all I'm trying to do. Is that really so wrong?
James Patterson
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I'm just trying to find some secret places in the human brain because I think movies tend to be too rational sometimes. Everything is supposed to make sense. Everything is supposed to be logical.
Quentin Dupieux
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I was just trying to stay alive, looking for ways to find you, hoping you hadn't left me behind." "Never," I say. "Not never." He looks back up at me. "I'd never leave you neither." "You promise?" "Cross my heart, hope to die," he says, grinning shyly. "I promise, too," I say and I smile at him. "I ain't never leaving you, Todd Hewitt, not never again.
Patrick Ness
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To me, getting up every single night and trying to reach out to an audience, and trying to dig deeper and further in the play to serve the writer and to understand yourself in that context is how you continue to grow and learn.
Kevin Spacey
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I think everything has to come from something that you feel comfortable with and want to be in and sometimes we try to negotiate that limit, but it's not always easy to find the right balance.
Caroline Dhavernas
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What tries to break us is endlessly fascinating to me. Joy is a whole different game to express.
Rachael Yamagata
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Yes, we're trying some new stuff. Some of it might work. Some of it might not. This, of course, is the nature of episodic television. They can't all be gems.
Marc Cherry