Trying Quotes - Page 405

I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it.

I don't consider myself to have a style or anything, I just do what I like to do and I try to do it best!

I try to shrug it off as a minor annoyance that whenever I do something successful, every capitalist out there wants a piece of the action.

In lower budget filmmaking, everything is a favor. You're pushing everybody, all the time. You're trying to get the best out of it that you can, and it has to be a labor of love, or you can't get it done.

When you're on the road, you sort of go crazy and being away from your family you get stir-crazy and lonely, so I try to keep myself involved as much as possible.

Trying to find the story within the story was hard. Filmmaking is such a reductive process in a strange way and you keep whittling away to what is essential.

I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.

I try to do the things that speak to me in one way or another, and sometimes I'm even drastic.

When you're trying to do character work that's different from what people expect from you, you're sort of in territory that is uncharted, and you don't know how it's playing all the time.

I think the Pentecostals have done a great thing for the Kingdom of God. I think Baptists have done a great thing, oh, Protestants, I should say, have done a great thing for the Kingdom of God, so whenever Satan tries to divide, it's just really God multiplying.

My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.

He who tries to forget a woman, never loved her

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.

Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.

If anybody wants to be a rock star they've gotta try hard enough. They're not gonna get it handed to them

My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.

There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're trying to conjure them up.

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

Things don't spiral out of control when we surrender them; they spiral out of control when we try to control them!

What is happening now is that producers are trying to figure out new ways to distribute that content.

There are some chagrins of the heart which a friend ought to try to console without betraying a knowledge of their existence, as there are physical maladies which a physician ought to seek to heal without letting the sufferer know that he has discovered their extent.

Fail big if you have to, but go down trying.

Too many companies waste time trying to eliminate their employees' weaknesses when, in fact, they should concentrate on developing their strengths.

Customers get vested in certain paradigms of computing, and those large vendors will try to keep those customers in those paradigms of computing for as long as possible. That's where you basically get the term cash cow.

A lot of people that are always trying to be funny and "on" and performing are just hiding. It's just a cover for what they really are and how they really feel.