Try Quotes

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

That's the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.

As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.

There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.

Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take risks.

I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being.

I think I have handled things pretty well last year and this. What I have to do now is try do it even better.

I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career.

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.

I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that. The reason I do that is because I know what it takes once I engage, what that means for me personally and for my wife.

I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.

I have seen entrepreneurs ask for hundreds of millions of dollars on a concept and try to sell because of 'their passion' for an idea. If the idea is that good, why wouldn't I cut you out and hire someone who is just as passionate for much, much less?

I'm not executing my pitches. I'm not commanding my fastball, and I get behind in the count. When I try to throw strikes, I'm getting hurt. That's not the way I pitch.

The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.

When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut.

My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot, I try to learn.

Two days later I got a call that they wanted to try out the character for seven episodes. Eleven years and 22 Emmys later, Cliff was still sitting at that bar.

You've got to make an effort on your own. Some people don't even try.

I try to conduct my life with a little levity.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.