Trying Quotes

• In politics, they play games. In Hollywood, they play games. I think that, overall, everybody is trying to do whatever it takes to get ahead.

  

  Constance Zimmer
  • Trying

• I remember going onstage on Broadway in this Leigh Bowery thing for a track like "Ich Bin Kunst." I've got breasts, this latex dripping down on my head, and I come out in a box. I just remember the audience looking really horrified because Rosie O'Donnell was trying to sell the show as sort of Pippin and Annie. She was saying it's a family show.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Remember
  • Audience
  • Track

• There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing.

  

  John Foster
  • People
  • American
  • Independent

• You're trying to make someone wet their pants and you're trying to make somebody crap in their pants. That's the motivation of a comic. Who else has that power?

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Power
  • motivation
  • Pants

• For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.

  

  William Griffith Wilson
  • Wise
  • Habit
  • Patience

• I'm trying all kinds of crazy stuff at house shows just for my own amusement and to see what the people are gonna do.

  

  Dean Ambrose
  • People
  • House
  • Crazy

• It's scary to not know when your next job is coming, and that is a daily fear when you are trying to act full-time.

  

  Allison Tolman
  • Time
  • Job
  • Fear

• Anything I have blown a lot of money on? Well, I have three daughters and a wife - that's four women, and I'm working on a sitcom, so you could say that I am just trying to stay alive!

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Women
  • Money
  • Wife

• Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Reality
  • Study
  • Chance

• God reveals himself to those who wait for that revelation, and who don't try to tear at the hem of a mystery, forcing disclosure.

  

  Catherine Doherty
  • Waiting
  • Tears
  • Mystery

• I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • Trying
  • Stupid

• Talent isn't really enough to make it in any world. If you're trying to be a superstar, or at the highest rate of fame, you have to have personality too. You have to be a well-rounded person. It takes way more than talent nowadays.

  

  Russell Llantino
  • World
  • Trying
  • Personality

• Oh, I'm so glad we know what it's called, that's a great help," snarled Ron, leaning back, trying to stop the plant from curling around his neck.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Great
  • Help
  • Stop

• I was always kind of a loudmouth and a class clown, and that kind of led to doing all the school plays and trying out all kinds of different stuff.

  

  Dustin Milligan
  • Different
  • Trying
  • School

• I'm trying my best to sound like me rather than trying my best to write hits or praying to God that people respond. I've arrived in a very healthy place and it feels great!

  

  Andrew Ripp
  • People
  • Writing
  • Healthy

• I am a person who cares deeply about what is happening in the country, and for me, in most ways since getting out of the service, at least, politics has been the way in which I see myself best serving and trying to make things better.

  

  Jason Kander
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Service

• I am not trying my best because it is the Olympics. I try my best always.

  

  Kim Yuna
  • Trying

• I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.

  

  Mike Singletary
  • Thinking
  • Player
  • Orators

• There's feelings there, but I think I've just been pretty good at trying to hide my emotions throughout the years. I try to have the same demeanor each and every day.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California.

  

  Pete McCloskey
  • Trying
  • Wife
  • California

• I highly recommend ClassPass. I spend a fortune on Barry's Bootcamp, Cycle House, SoulCycle, Flywheel, Ballet Barre, SLT Pilates, YogaWorks... I do everything, and I'm always trying different workouts, and I was like, 'Finally, 99 bucks!'

  

  Jamie Chung
  • Different
  • House
  • Ballet

• I think place and time for me is often a matter of convenience, something I can use to another end rather than something I'm trying to define because it's somehow fascinating to me in itself. It's more what the place can do for the larger goals I have for the work.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Time
  • Work
  • Goals

• I've spent a lot of my early twenties focusing on other people as opposed to myself. Being madly in love with people and putting them first and not necessarily putting myself under a microscope. It's unsettling but I'm trying to be the kind of person that can be alone, at peace with himself. Making most recent album, I felt braver putting stuff into songs than I do bringing them up in conversation. Which makes no logical sense. Lyrically, there was a lot less hiding behind suns and moons and stars.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Up
  • Song

• For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter's is much prettier. You may not realize its advantages until you're trying to breathe liquid methane.

  

  Neal Stephenson
  • May
  • Culture
  • Breathe

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