Trying Quotes - Page 488

It was like the part of me that had enjoyed those friends had evaporated, leaving behind a huge, echoing emptiness, and I was scrabbling on the edge of it, trying not to fall into the hole within myself because I was terrified to find out how far down it went.

I try to be genuine. I try to be real. It's such a subjective thing, but I try to convey an emotion.

I always try to be careful when an actor who is like 70 walks onto my set at work, I don't want them to get called in five hours early or block shoot something. I think you need to treat them with respect and dignity.

I'm trying to create the world around myself to be a place of as much equality and openheartedness as possible.

Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work.

Try and get out into nature for even 30 min. each day to clear your head + think + walk + breathe. Great daily practice.

I said with perfect honest, "I have no intention of trying to take these suckers out by myself, no.

But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leav­ing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.

If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink.

I think we should see whether we are wise trying to educate everybody to a high standard the way we are trying to do now. There has to be a high level of education so everybody is literate, but whether university education is necessary for everyone is open to question.

To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring them that they are not the Vienna Philharmonic and never will be.

Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked.

I don't do much to keep in trim - I try to walk places instead of driving whenever I can, but I really ought to do more.

I do try to compress a lot of information into what I do. It's funny.

I guess I try to find the humor by juxtaposing deeper themes in literature with what people perceive as being lighter, disposable children's fare in comics.

There are multiple ways to solve a problem and add value. There are seldom right answers. So, you've got to use your abilities to diagnose a situation and use your best judgment on what to do and how to do it. You WILL make mistakes - when you do, admit them and go back and try to fix them. I don't know is often the right answer.

Any time you do action and horror, you've always got to try to find a way to make it fresh for the audience, but also for yourself, and there are so many different ways to freak people out and create tension.

Make DV movies so you can learn how to make films, but don't try to distribute them until they are fantastic.

You shouldn't be looking at the bottom of the mountain. Why don't you try looking at the top some time?

If you ever want to get a sense of your own personal failure, look at yourself trying to get across a point that nobody is listening to and the situation gets worse and worse.

I've always wanted to try new things because it's exciting and it keeps you active and alive.

I think there was something that made us not pay attention to climate change. Something that was up there. There was a saying when we were trying to pay attention to the environment that people used this phrase NIMBY - not in my back yard. People were saying, ‘I don’t care, it is not in my back yard.’ But now it’s in everyone’s back yard.

With me, it's much more a matter of accepting whatever happens, accepting all these elements from the outside and then trying to work with them in a sort of free collaboration.