Trying Quotes - Page 507

If you don't understand what al Qaeda was trying to do on 9/11, if you don't have a sense of who Osama bin Laden is as a person, if you don't have a sense of what al Qaeda, the organization, was on 9/11, 9/11 appears to be more or less inexplicable.

I try to preload as little as I can. I like to come to the set with minimal preparation.

So many Christmas films either are twee, or try and go super edgy, then stick on something Christmassy at the end of the movie.

There's a small island, inhabited in the South Pacific that I will try to swim to.

I find that the dead-end route is to try to describe what's going on in your mouth.

I am here for the goal, and the goal is to try to do it again.

Well, we try to - we definitely try to have a balance. And I think things have gotten a lot better at Pixar. When we did "Toy Story," that was an all hands on deck situation that really was time intensive.

Try to dwell on the people you'd like to love, instead of all the people you do loathe.

As long as you try your best, that is all that matters. You don't have to be the fastest runner or top of the class.

No one can tell you the rules of 'Celebrity Apprentice.' No one. Donald Trump just does what he wants, which is mostly pontificating to people who are sucking up to him, while the network people try to manipulate him into making the highest-rated show they can.

I don't want anyone as president who promises to take care of me. I may be stupid, but I want a chance to try to be a grown-up and take care of my family.

Mostly in life people are trying not to have emotions.

You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.

If you are looking for a producer, try to contact established producers. Don't let the fear of theft paralyze you, or you will never get anywhere with it.

It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't.

Being actors we are dealing with the beauty and complexity of human confusion, no? And we are always trying to get answers.

It's very much like a torture sometimes, the process of trying to get rid of an accent.

There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies willingness to be alive rather than trying to seek harmony.

Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.

A loving and kindly approach works between individuals, it works between groups and it would work between nations if nations had the courage to try it.

Few find inner peace but this is not because they try and fail, it is because they do not try. . . When your life is governed by the divine nature instead of the self-centered nature you have found inner peace.

No one walks so safely as one who walks humbly and harmlessly with great love and great faith. For such a person gets through to the good in others (and there is good in everyone), and therefore cannot be harmed. This works between individuals, it works between groups and it would work between nations if nations had the courage to try it.

When I first moved to New York I had been trying to work on anything and everything I could. From extra work and commercials to short and student films so I could learn in front of a camera.

When you're onstage, it's important to try and feel some type of therapy in getting the material out, because then you don't leave the stage so tired. If you're onstage and you're doing the same routine over and over, then it gets monotonous. You want to be able to try to get to the truth constantly, and I think the more you do that, the easier it is.

My 20s were a time where I made it; my 30s were when I was away, confused, and trying to figure it all out.