Trying Quotes

And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.

Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.

I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.

You can't say that being a fan is more serious, because players are trying to do better in order to get paid better.

Our party cannot be all things to all people. It can't be. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's stop trying to curry favor with them.

Now, I talk to athletes who answer questions with a 'yeah'. I realize I used to do that. Or they answer very quickly and you stand there trying to come up with another question to ask. I've seen both sides and it's been very educational.

I see myself as a flashlight in the dark. I'm not trying to be overlooked anymore.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.

A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve.

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying.

All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.

Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.

Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.

It's impossible to always get across what I'm trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I'm not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be.

From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that we're engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there.

We're trying to create people that are going to change the world.

Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles.

I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more.

I'm really trying to respond to the foods that are in the stores and just pulling the things that are the very best and cook what looks beautiful and is seasonal. That's the way to go. I love going to the grocery store and the market. None of it's drudgery for me. Washing dishes is the drudgery.

Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.

No matter what the role, you're trying to do the impossible - make a living in show business.

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.

I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.