Trying Quotes - Page 582

I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.

I am continually trying to find meaning in the world. If we cannot find some ultimate significance or value in our lives, we fall very easily into despair.

I try to offer as much as I can to the director so he has as much to work with as possible to create the character that, really, he wants to create in a sense.

In the theater, actors are the essential element of the work. In a film, it's a real collaboration - not that theater isn't, because it is - but it's a collaboration to such an extent that you can give a performance in film that sometimes you look at and you go, "Well, that's not the performance I was trying to give at all."

Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

I did not have any philosophy at all when I wrote the first novel. I was just wanting to capture experiences that I thought would be inspiring for Indians who are trying to break free from the very high-pressured family environments and do their own thing.

What I'm trying to do right now is truly answer my most deepest most unarticulated questions for myself through my writing in some form.

I felt like I got more comfortable on "Idol" when I just started being myself and not trying to be what I thought I had to be.

I wake up every day trying to give something back to you that you can rock to and be proud of.

I try to deliver because I don't believe that people are deliverin' the same quality of albums.

No matter what is going on around or within you, everything at some point must change. It's harder to accept when things are great - and a source of strength when change is what you need. Either way, it reminds me to try my best to be fully present in every moment.

At least no one's trying to kill anyone. Give them about fifteen minutes

I couldn't sit by and watch them try to take her down. Not her.

I was lost before I found her in my dreams, and she found me that day in the rain. I knew it seemed like I was always the one trying to save Lena, but the truth was she had saved me, and I wasn't ready for her to stop now.

She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking and the looming shadow of the last word, the one we refused to say.

Noomi [Rapace] felt fresh. And she's passionate and ambitious in all the right ways. She's a tour de force. Every time I was trying to have a discussion with the actors, she'd be pulling out a blade out from underneath her gypsy skirt and menace someone saying, "Maybe I should slit your throat."

I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.

I feel like social media is a great thing. I try not to go on it too much.

In some cultures, when you give someone a gift, it's expected that they will pass it on. This seems like a peculiar practice in the West, but in many other societies, a gift has a spirit. If you try to possess the gift, you remove its spirit as a gift.

And it's been a process of digging through the songs and trying to make them born on stage again. I think they are very different. I think they come off very differently. I think they come off, I don't know if it's masculine or outward, extroverted than introverted. I didn't know. It's just been a process.

I've been trying to catch up to it. Just trying to get with it, feel behind it a little bit, but that's good actually, probably. That way, I'm still sort of understanding it.

I try and eat good. On the road, that's next to impossible. And we eat a lot of unhealthy things when we're in Texas - that's what you do there.

I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

I have OCD mixed with ADD, you try living with that. Its complicated.

I always try to do the most interesting, fun thing for me.