Trying Quotes - Page 585

I'm trying to get under people's skin in a way. I don't like films that go in one ear and out the other.

Last time I was recording, I was trying to loop on the computer, but it's really difficult because it's really different from looping on hardware.

Try approving of yourself just as you are, and spoiling yourself rotten with small kid's pleasures.

We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.

The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.

People want jobs, but nobody has a recipe for how to get them. And so they are trying different things.

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.

Try not to annoy your relatives unnecessarily.

I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.

We're trying to divide groups or decide that some of them are truly victims and some of them are truly aggressors.

The United States are such a large place. And there are some states and some cities where the questions of gender or sexuality would not be asked, or where scholars or academics are working in small little corners of the universities trying to raise these questions and being told that either that they're strange or not appropriate or being actively opposed. There are other places where there is very active scholarship going on. Certainly on gender.

I never did like the assertion of the "innate" inferiority or women or Blacks, and I understood that when people tried to talk that way, they were trying to "fix" a social reality into a natural necessity. And yet, sometimes we do need a language that refers to a basic, fundamental, enduring, and necessary dimension of who we are, and the sense of sexed embodiment can be precisely that.

I told everyone that actings for losers and I needed to get an education. But something kept telling me to give it one last chance. In the end, I lasted a month on the M.B.A. and then decided to quit, come back to L.A., and try again.

I would rather die then try to live without you”, “May you always love me and want me but never have me”, “May you never love anyone but me”.

You have to kind of roll with the punches. That's why I think work begets work to a certain degree. I just try and keep busy.

There were a few things that, in rehearsal, any one of us might try. [John] Hughes would go, "I like that," to me spitting up in the air and catching it in my mouth. It was just something I did in a rehearsal and Molly [ Ringwald] went, "Ewww." And John went, "Can you do that again?" And I went all day long, and he was like, "Okay, let's do that."

If you read a script enough, especially a good script - I try to read it 40 to 50 times before you begin so you get a sense of the arc: what happens before, what happens after, what happens during.

Most senators are just going to work and trying to do a job.

I think it is important that we all try and be green where it is possible; an awareness of the world around us can never be a bad thing.

If anything is leaking, I try to plug the hole.

You want the audience to get your movie, and you want the audience to like it. It's as simple as that. If they don't understand what you're trying to say, you've failed. Of course, you can't get 100 percent of the crowd to understand the movie, but you know when you've reached the people you want to reach.

I hear Amy Schumer on Howard Stern, and I think, "I wish there was a movie that starred her, because she's so interesting," and then at some point I go, "I guess I have to get involved, because it's not happening right now. Maybe I should help try to make that happen."

I try to just save a fresh, clear head for whoever I'm working with, so hopefully it's helpful that there's someone who doesn't have to sit in the editing room for 12 hours a day, and who's blinded by the massive footage and options that they have.

And I like the passion that people have when they're trying to prove they can make a movie or be a movie star.