Tried Quotes

Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.

I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me.

Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa.

Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can.

I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work.

I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.

For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy.

I tried to copy some of his mannerisms at first but it didn't work. And then I just let the spirit of the character grow in me and it just took its rightful place. I started to speak the lines and it felt right.

I've tried body surfing. It's nice.

And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.

I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States.

I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.

Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.

A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence. But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress, I finally resigned.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.

The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that I had done on it.

Call me All-American, but I love Ham and Cheese sandwiches. And not just any old ham and cheese sandwich... My mother's is the best. I've tried many times to make these sandwiches on my own, but it's never the same.

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

I tried to steer the student newspaper toward more pertinent information instead of the usual gossip and bull.

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

It's like an OCD thing, it's not as much something I enjoy. If I see a chapstick that I've never tried, I have to buy it. And then once that door's been opened, I have to check the whole store to see if there are more chapsticks that I don't have.

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.

I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star. I have just said, 'Hire me if you want somebody good.' I tried to be as good as I could be every time out, and that's kind of bridged the decades.