Trying Quotes - Page 268

If you must keep groaning, please try to do it in a rhythm I can dance to.

Life can be very deep, but I'm trying to stay at the shallow end.

There's no harm in talking to yourself, but try to avoid telling yourself jokes you've heard before.

I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. In the past, whenever I had fallen short in almost any undertaking, it was seldom because I had tried and failed. It was because I had let fear of failure stop me from trying at all.

I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems.

Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.

Disasters are funny to me. As a comedian you learn from failure, so I'm always trying to put myself in a situation that does not seem ideal for my comedy and see how it works.

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.

You have to find things that are accessible and doable in your busy life and try to fit some time in your schedule to just have time to yourself and be able to recoup and refocus.

We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed.

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.

My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted.

If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit at your desk every day. Start with twenty minutes, say, and work up as quickly as possible to as much time as you can spare. Do you really want to write? Sit for two hours a day.

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

When we were trying to find the woman to play Maura Isles, it was a no-brainer when Sasha came in. We just knew it was her, and she did such a fantastic job. She got the job, right then and there, in the room, and it was great. We actually played a little joke on her. She's a great lady and we've had a really, really fantastic time.

What's risky is living your life and never trying for anything and never doing something brave and never getting yourself scared.