Trying Quotes - Page 275

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.

We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.

The truth is, homes change over time — and technology has to adapt, not try to do everything at once.

Not interested. I didn't try very hard. I went to boarding school on a sports' scholarship after I bowled a cricket ball into my old headmaster's leg. He said, 'Christ, that was accurate,' and got it for me. But I walked out at 16.

You're trying to make your painting too complicated. Paintings get complicated all by themselves.

I'm very happy with my lot. I like the variety I get. You don't want to spend your life repeating yourself. It's true of any kind of artist, you want to explore as wide and far as you can go, so that's what I've been trying to do.

I try as hard as I can for everything to be different from one movie to the next.

But you know what I'm trying to say, it's that there's a couple of really dangerous drugs out there and I've lost some friends to them.

Trying too hard to follow every trend. You want to look fashionable and put-together, not like you hit every sale rack this season.

We try not to talk much about mental fatigue.

I'm currently trying to direct my own material.

Independent labels take nothing and make something out of it. Major labels buy that something, and try to make more out of it.

Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one's corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.

I think everything comes together. I think it's me being more comfortable with what I am trying to do in terms of how I pitch, in using the curveball and stuff like that. It all brings the package together.

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.

Some of the best motivation in life is trying to impress a girl.

I admit there’s an element of brutality in all my work - it’s part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I’m trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people’s pain and humiliation.

But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to draw and tell stories in a proper fashion.

I want people to expect more from me because I expect more. If you don't set goals high, you're not trying.

The ways in which Oscar Wilde was attacking the Romantics that preceded him, and the Romantic ideas that preceded him, were very similar to what the glam-rockers, particularly Bowie and Bryan Ferry, were attacking in the earnestness of '60s culture. Trying to shock, but with wit, cleverness, and homosexuality.

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.

One never wants to do anything that's going to break that 'sculpture of the character' that's been done so far, or make anything that's been done so far become illogical in any way, so you always want to try to connect when you're doing a series of films that has a continuous character.

I'm going to try to stay buff as long as I can, but it takes a lot of discipline and staying away from your favorite junk food!.

I actually do a lot of Pilates and try to hike every day that I'm home. Also, I dance SO much in my shows and at rehearsals!

Seriously, I've just realized that almost everyone is a fraud, so I try not to feel too bad about it.