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For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself.

Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.

I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference.

I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at life, the way they work depends on what happens, us winning or losing. It's kind of crazy. So, I kind of got caught up in that, I'm gonna try to stay away from that.

At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success.

Yeah, I try to be really calm.

I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.

I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

I would love to try to win another game. Obviously, it's more fun when you win. I'd rather try and not win than not try at all.

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.

I try to avoid political ties.

I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening.

Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you.

I really like to be able to have variety and to try different things - that's the beauty of fashion.

I wanted to feel that precision and control and then try to apply it to tele. That's what I've looked for in my gear development through the years, and today, tele is very precise, very high-performance.

I try to get them working. My older son is 10 and he's pretty interested. We had a dinner party the other night and he helped a lot. He helped peel asparagus; he hung out. It was great.

You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

While it is challenging working with a kid, because they're so of the moment all the time. My acting style is to try to take something from my life that the character can relate to and that I can relate the character to.

I think you want to try every sport possible just to experience life.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.