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Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's nickname for me is 'red alert.' I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

I don't think the objective of an abortion clinic is to try to talk women out of having the procedure. That obviously would not be positive for their bottom line.

There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.

I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper.

When you accept a role in a pilot, you automatically sign up for five years. You think it's scary to walk down the aisle? Try signing a five-year contract for a show you may not want to be part of down the road.

The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.

I had a one day slip, Matt. So what do you do? You get up and you go on, and you try not to do it again.

I don't apologize to people who try to intimidate.

I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

There are words that work, that are meant to explain and educate on policies that work, on products that work, on services that work. I'm not going to ever try to sell a lemon. I don't do that.

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring and it's not about the wedding. It's a grave thing, getting married. And it's easy to get swept up in the wrong things.

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for a story, there is a certain - not falsification, but a shifting.

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch.

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.

Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!

When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.

I try to make myself look as normal as possible because I like people to relate to me.

You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

There's an expression in Australia that's called 'Go Bush,' which means to get out of the city and relax. I try and 'go bush' to places where there's no cell reception. But, I don't get to do that often, so for the most part, it's just a state of mind.

I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better.

We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.

The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.