Trying Quotes - Page 383

I think it gets uncomfortable when you try to act like you didn't just tell a joke that bombed.

I'm really vulnerable onstage because it's just me. I'm not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way.

Humor is like a rhythm; it's like music. And you throw a couple of extra syllables in, you wreck the beat and you kill the laugh. So I try to follow the writers very carefully because I know how carefully they worked to do it that way.

I can't get over that at this age I don't feel this age. I'm not trying to be any younger. I'm not lying about my age. If I were lying about my age, I would say I was 89. I'm just at one of those good times in one's life. I'm at one of the high spots. I'm healthy enough to enjoy it. I'm surrounded by friends I adore. Isn't that kind of the best way to sign off?

In a marriage, you struggle and struggle and struggle, and then you realize that you have to ride the horse in the direction it's going. You stop trying to pull the reins in another direction.

Be independent and don't try to think someone is going to save you or look to someone else to make you happy or look to someone else to complete you.

Fear is something that can really hold us all back from different things in life. It's important to notice what your fears are and try to conquer them.

In terms of the nature of the continuation of the Cold War, which has gone on so long between Cuba and the United States, I applaud the president for aggressively trying to end it and I hope we will have not only full diplomatic relations, but that the trade embargo will end.

I don't think it's illegal. I don't think it's against the rules. It's as dangerous for me to have a toothpick in your mouth as it is to have a 200-pound man punch me in the face hard or try to kick me in the face. I'm more worried about that, to be honest. I don't have any superstitions. I won world titles with a toothpick. I defended it without a toothpick. It all depends. Sometimes I do it, sometimes I don't. It's a bad habit. I know I shouldn't do it, but it's fine.

Whatever the genre of film you're doing and whatever the source material is, you have to adapt to the different genre, but it's the same work, as an actor. You're just trying to ground it in reality and find your truth in it.

I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I try to get inside my stories.

We learned that a product doesn't sell just because you're trying to do good in the world. You still have to have a healthy distribution, a good marketing strategy, and price the product properly.

I do worry about how newspapers respond to falling circulation figures. I'm not sure that the answer is for newspapers to try to cater to whatever seems to be the fad of the day.

The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.

If one door closes and another does not open, try climbing thru a window, either way, make your way in.

My work doesn't speak about individuals (it's not portraiture in the traditional sense), it tries to speak about life in general in cities of the West - which is where I live and what I understand.

It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.

It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. Im not a politician.

I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

I'm trying to move an aircraft carrier here, I'm not just steering the speedboat.

My experience is that our intelligence officials try to do the right thing, but even with good intentions, sometimes they make mistakes. Sometimes they can be overzealous.

There is no excuse for not trying.

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.

History Coming too close Is monstrous, like a doll That is alive and bigger than the child Who tries to hold it.

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.