Trying Quotes

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.

I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me.

Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You're expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things.

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

I like to live righteous. And I just want everyone to know I'm not trying to get out of anything.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

A comedy club is a place where you work out material, you're trying material.

I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean.

The idea of taking off my shoes and trying on all these clothes is so exhausting, I just leave.

I get reminded a lot of the time that my life is a little bit different, but I'm just trying to keep it as regular as possible because I like it that way.

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.

But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.

So I think it's - what was important to me is that I found that I can't change the fact that people already have made an opinion about me. But I don't think that should stop me from trying to correct some of the misperceptions that are out there.

I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.