Hard Quotes

I just don't like showing everything I've got. I don't want to look like I'm trying too hard to be sexy.

If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.

It's hard sometimes to take a step back and realize what's happened because you're always trying to move forward. You're always looking at the next palette.

Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.

Don't try too hard to be something you're not.

It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.

If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.

When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show.

Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.

You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.

I try so hard to live in the moment - I don't think ahead very much.

If you're in America a lot, it's easy to get into playing American. All of it, the sounds, the energies, all very different. But it's really hard to do the accent. I tend to try and stay in it all day, which is the only way I can manage it.

Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.

When I was a rapper, the groupies didn't have to try too hard with me. Just show up at the hotel.

I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard.

I try to be myself and, of course, be a good role model. I don't really find it hard, but you think about what you do and that other people look up to you.

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.

I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable.

The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard. I've gone through things in my life. People say it must be so hard to do it in the public eye, but the truth is, when you go through hard things, it's just hard.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

I still find trusting people quite hard. I've got a couple of mates that I do let in, but that's it. It's something I've got to sort out - I cut people off.

I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.