Trying Quotes - Page 397

In Hollywood, you tend to get pigeonholed to certain genres, and then when you try to do something different, it's not always so easy. Obviously, you don't want to keep repeating yourself, all the time. So, it's a constant struggle for every filmmaker and actor to find something that you can really feel passionate about. It's a profession like anything else.

I don't think something is a failure if you put your all into it. I'm a big fan of the saying, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

I'm always trying to see things from different peoples' perspectives, to understand why they love something.

I'm trying to make it cool to be a good girl.

When you finally accept that you're a complete dork, your life gets easier. No sense in trying to be cool.

To read a character I'm not sympathizing with is generally quite a good, attractive proposition because I've got somewhere to go, I've got work to do, to try to understand why they behave like they behave, to relate entirely and understand them and to be completely emotionally connected. That is much more fun 99 percent of the time.

I've discovered that people don't actually want to have things spoiled, and they really try to avoid spoilers.

All of us, all of us, all of us trying to save our immortal souls, some ways seemingly more round about and mysterious than others. We are having a good time here. But hope all will be revealed soon.

There is no way that me or anyone else could be like Coach Bryant. I think it would be ridiculous for anyone to try.

When you try to help people become a better person, you're going to have to find out what's really going in their world.

What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.

I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

There've been times when I have existential conversations with myself, and I've thought about leaving and trying to apply my education better. But ultimately it doesn't really matter. Learning how to write, learning how to write papers and structure, that's been very helpful for writing.

The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.

Materialism is a fruitless attempt to find meaning outside of God. When we try to find ultimate fulfillment in a person other than Christ or a place other than heaven, we become idolaters. According to Scripture, materialism is not only evil; it is tragic and pathetic.

If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity - every writer has to try to be, to some extent, sometimes, a law unto himself.

But whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge.

One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.

Everybody is trying to be perfect. And the moment somebody starts trying to be perfect, he starts expecting everybody else to be perfect. He starts condemning people, he starts humiliating people.

You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.

I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our throats.

I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as an artist.

I go to various boot camps 4-5 times a week, and I try to get some Pilates in there to thin and tone.

I hate trying to analyze comedy in some deep way. If it gets laughs, it's funny.