Trying Quotes

I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.

I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.

The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.

It's kind of like trying to make straight lines from curves, but involving shapes that sort of dictate what the curves are, if you like, and the difference between two separate pieces creates a third transitional piece if you like.

I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic!

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

I have spent far too many years trying to make everybody like me. It's not possible. People can say or think what they want.

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld.

My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday.

I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.

I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.

I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.

I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.

I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002.

I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist.

I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my audience and create a legacy that outlives me. There are so many other ways I want to reach women besides doing a talk show.

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade car.

I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich.

I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there's a challenge each time.

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.

I've spent about that amount of time trying to tell the public that there was purpose in... my business, my career and the roller coaster ride... how the people I associated with worked together.

We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more.

With whatever talent and resources I have, I'm trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel.

You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.

That professionalism comes from what I've watched people do on the set. I'm just trying to be as respectful to the environment, as they have been. I think I still act like a kid. I just try to be as professional as I can.

We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.