Try Quotes

Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.

I have no idea what will come next in my writing life or life in general. I like not knowing, but I know what I want. That doesn't mean it will happen, but I'll give it my best try.

With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.

One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.

I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.

We've got another nominee coming up, well qualified, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owens has a tremendous reputation, tremendous record, but they are already marshalling their forces to try to stop that nomination.

I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.

When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West.

Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.

Give a man a free hand and he'll try to put it all over you.

All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead.

It has to be a very specific role for me because of my accent. I can't complain; I've been working since I got to LA. But it is hard. I have no training as an actress so I try whatever I do like school, because I'm learning.

Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself.

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10.

What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those who have more.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

There is virtually nothing I wouldn't be willing to do, to try and make sure that children have a fair shake in life.

When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

You don't try to get influenced by everything that's going on with all the other music around you. You don't listen to the radio - I mean, I don't. When I get ready to do an album, I don't listen to anybody else; I don't wanna be influenced.

I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting married.

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

Since the Puffy Combs case in New York, I will not try any more criminal cases.

Don't try to explain it, just sell it.

I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend the rest of my life wearing waistcoats. I got the chance to try everything. Not just Romeos, but pimps and grandfathers and even one role as a woman in a Naomi Wallace play called Slaughter City.

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.