Trying Quotes - Page 506

I see how people boss other actors around to try to get a scene favorable to them. I absolutely just never engage in doing that. If someone's going to do it to me, I just let them have it.

If no one on the movie has met me before or knows me, that's the easiest. I don't do a lot of things that don't relate to being the person. I will try to keep it going for my other actors. I want them to do the least amount of pretending as possible.

It's definitely a challenge, but it's even more than that. Beyond the basic need to understand what you're saying, a computer needs to understand what you're trying to do. So humans talking to computers present variable challenges.

I try not to read my own books just because I would rather read somebody else.

I'm constantly trying to figure out how to crack that mystery; how to make a novel that has a sense of immediacy of a short story. I try to do that and I'll try it again, but I'll never get it.

I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

Whatever I think, whatever I try to do, life might just turn around and... and hitch up its pants and throw me a twenty-dollar bill.

History is not a nightmare from which. I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.

If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.

I adore physical miniatures and try to use them as much as I can and have a bit of a fetish about that.

I spent so many years trying to become an actor, trying to be a person that I wasn't.

In our show, we try to think about consequences, not about tricking the audience or hiding things to fool the audience.

I'm really working on trying to get that lifestyle aspect of the Emilio Pucci house to be as strong as possible.

Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must be able to say: "I know what Anne [or John] is trying to do."

Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes. But they get nothing done.

Effective innovations start small. They are not grandiose. They try to do one specific thing.

We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.

Try to pick a fund manager who has a well-defined strategy, has been through these things before, and go invest and stay with him.

All we try to do is buy a dollar for 40 cents.

Businessmen are always trying to advance their business interests, but they are not running for Prime Minister.

When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them.

Try and identify where the money can go to create conditions for true systemic change.

Things like science and technology still leave some gaps, so it's not as if everybody was sitting around doing nothing, but the bureaucracy and the whole structure of our culture is basically built out of men trying to be legitimate and making things up so they look important.

Songs came first. I started out in 1965 trying to copy the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Stones, like most kids I knew. I'm still trying. Songs are hard to beat.