Trying Quotes

Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?

I was going to go make a film in Greece. if they caught you with this much marijuana, they threw you in jail, no questions asked, and I was trying to stuff it in my deodorant bottles. I thought, what I am doing?

I'm not trying to take Cate Blanchett down.

What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.

History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

The principal role of the President of the United States is the security of the country and participating in trying to stabilize the world.

Dave and I had been song writers in Nashville, trying to get around, out hustling, trying to meet people. We randomly met Hillary out in town one night. She said she was a singer. I asked her if she would like to write some songs with Dave and me, and a week later she came over. Instantaneously we had this chemistry.

I'm so trying to give up meat.

We've been swimming at nude beaches and I love to go skinny dipping, but I'm sorry, sitting on top of a mountain, that's just, you're trying to show off or something. That's ridiculous.

Trying to get the talk show, looking back on it, we had to beg a lot of station managers to pick up the show because people thought no one would watch it because I'm openly gay.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing.

In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful.

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.

You're constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you've made it.

The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.

I love getting consumer reports. I think it's one of my favourite things, studying what people have to say about the product and then trying to make it better.

The Iranian regime gives financial support to terrorist organizations all over the world, denies the Holocaust, and calls for the wiping the state of Israel from the map, while developing long-range missiles and trying to obtain nuclear weapon.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal.

What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for.

We're trying to publicize this one and make people realize that the gun industry can clean up its act and can operate in a way that can reduce the likelihood of guns killing police officers and other innocent people.

There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished.

I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.