Trying Quotes - Page 624

I never write jokes, I just try to make myself laugh.

I try to dress smooth, I try to keep my face shaved, I try to keep my head cut. I try to do all the things to keep it smooth going!

I’m trying to be the Jay-Z of comedy one day. I don’t know if there’s any comedy moguls out there, but I would love to be the first comedy mogul.

When you're on stage performing stand-up, things only happen one time. I've done bits where I improv a joke, and people are dying. The next show, I try to repeat it, I can't do it. Because with the first audience that was our moment. It can't happen the same way again. We were all there: a certain type of people were at that show and we all got it.

Trying to prove something to someone is never a valid reason for doing anything.

Don't be afraid to ask for what you need to get the story you want. Be yourself and be informal. Forming trusting relationships with subjects is key to the success of the film, so if you're trying to be anything other than yourself, it won't work.

I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help.

Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!

Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined. And this definition is something you may then carry with you for the rest of your life, trying to confirm it or extend or correct or deny it; but you can never eliminate it.

When I'm writing a book I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.

While directing in theater that the actors will - I don't know if it's competitiveness or what it is, but they love to make each other laugh. They love to impress each other in rehearsal. They'll try something for a reaction. But in film, you're very often not all together in the room at the same time. You're shooting one day, somebody else is shooting the next. It's a totally different dynamic.

I try to do what has never been done before.

We're trying to fill something internal with something external. We're trying to fill something real with something illusionary.

There's not a person in Virginia won't try to sell you a horse. It's in 'em.

It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she can lose the reader in six lines, so try to keep the attention of the reader. Also, you learn to research, and to conduct an interview - to extract from the person whatever you need from that person.

I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it.

Sometimes journalists ask me, "What's the message?" There is no message. I think that fiction should not be trying to give messages. Just tell a story.

I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.

I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.

Not so easy, Mr Lennon. Even if you try.

What's the point of trying to fix a world we're so briefly in?

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form

I knew that I had to find out more about van Gogh. Even though I was far too young, and felt I did not have sufficient technique to write a book about Vincent van Gogh, I knew I had to try. If I didn't I would never write anything else.

There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.

I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.