Trying Quotes - Page 367

Other times I say: I would very much like to try to do something with this music, but after playing for a few minutes, I have to break off.

I'd be worried if I was put in the same category as Michael Bubl I'm trying to sound like a young man, for starters.

I'm interested in gay characters - not trying to sensationalize gay characters, just [representing] who are in my personal life. I'm interested in exploring my world and my friends, and a lot of them happen to be gay.

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

In documentary films, being able to be a storytelling and embrace film as an art form - while being very clearly connected in trying to help make the world a better place - is really important to me.

I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put into words. Where language ends is where good art begins.

Fair isn't fair, Dean. Like I'm supposed to help you because fair is fair? Try I need you to help me so I wont rip out your spine and beat you with it. I might respond to that, maybe.

I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine.

I'm trying to be less bombastic. I love my books. I think I've done things nobody else has done.

Maybe I should try singing like a man.

I went through about 40 different hats until we found one that fit. It had to fit me and fit the character, more importantly, and whatever that thing was that we were trying to create with him.

If too many things have to happen in order to bring about the situation you want, then back out of it and try again later.

If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.

I go on at least 2-3 auditions a week in the pursuit of more work. So I'm constantly working on material and constantly honing and trying to perfect a craft that is never perfectible - it's always new, and it's always different. It's always a work in progress.

I think we're always trying to push ourselves to do new things.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm learning to not want to be someone else, to just be who I am, as is, with nothing extra added on.

In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.

I never thought about being No. 1. I just kept trying to be No. 1.

Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.

The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.

You've sort of made up for it tonight,' said Harry. 'Getting the sword. Finishing off the Horcux. Saving my life.' 'That makes me sound a lot cooler than I was,' Ron mumbled. 'Stuff like that always sounds cooler than it really was,' said Harry. 'I've been trying to tell you that for years.' Simultaneously they walked forwards and hugged, Harry gripping the still sopping back of Ron's jacket.

The spells are made up. I have met people who assure me, very seriously, that they are trying to do them, and I can assure them, just as seriously, that they don’t work.

Sad when you spend more time trying to stay alive than living.

I always try to choose material that I would want to go and see. I don't choose movies anymore to be in that other people wouldn't want to see.

Well, I'm still experimenting, trying to figure out my style. I'm trying lots of things from many designers including Christian Siriano.