Trying Quotes
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It's tough. I mean the thing is that people don't realize how much people are looking at you and judging you and constantly try to, I guess, watch you fail, and hoping you do fail.
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I'm trying to adapt - they say you have to adapt to vertigo.
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Unless you stop trying, how can you not fail anymore?
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I still have my agent back in Australia keeping an eye on things there, and we are trying to find the right job which will bring me home to shoot.
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I was trying to sound like some of the people I was listening to, like Mala and Coki.
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“I'm not trying to change the world. I'm trying to stop the world from changing me.”
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If you only live in the world of the actor, and if you only live in the world of auditions, etc., then you don't really have a whole lot to offer when it comes to playing the humans that you're trying to audition for.
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Spirituality is something that makes you who you are on and off the field. It's something you try and live by. The way you play is one thing, but the way you act is a little different. You're just trying to be a good person, the best you can be, on and off the field.
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At Standing Rock, we experienced, first-hand, people coming together in their communities and trying to use the levers of representative democracy to try and say, 'We don't want this in our community; we don't want this in our backyard,' and corporations using their monetary influence to completely erode that process.
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I try to keep a pretty one-tracked mind.
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Next you will cry about taxation without representation, and throw a basket of tea into the harbor. You are indeed a very Jacobin at heart, and I think I must give up trying to cure you of it; I can but wash my hands and deny responsibility
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I think, a lot of my career and my life before I went to Sweden, I felt like I was trying to be someone else.
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I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.
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Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures.
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What's my status? I'm just a guy from Saginaw, Michigan, trying to make it. But you know, pretty nice crib.
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The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so.
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I always say I broke my mom's heart when I left. I don't know if that's what any mom wants for her kid, just thinking about how hard it is trying to make it in this business.
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You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both. Its impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying.
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You've got to remember that films don't lead the way. People think that films are trying to lead society. Mostly, they're reflecting the moods and thoughts that are going on in the country or around the world.
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I had opportunities to stay on shows for long periods of time, and maybe financially that would have been good, but I feel good about trying to keep doing things that are a little bit different than what I've done.
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It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
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If a subject has a delicate surface to it, you do not want to go charging in there. You need to establish some kind of presence and understanding. I will say, Try to forget I'm here. I won't ask you to pose, I won't ask you to do anything. It's important that I just be allowed to be around, to be present. Photographing people requires a willingness to be rejected. So, I think the best approach is to be honest and direct. Very often, I tell them, You don't know me. There's no reason why you should trust me... the only thing I can promise is that I'll try to do the most honest work I can.
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I always had a problem when someone was trying to place sport in social and political context. Sport is a separate and unique kind of human activity, which functions under its own rules and principles. It has nothing to do with the political agenda, and neither it should. When politics interferes with sport, unjust things happen.
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I can't imagine trying to operate a company banking on the fact that my logo is cooler than somebody else's logo.
