Trying Quotes - Page 707

I wouldn't claim to know what another person is thinking. I can imagine it, but it's my interpretation, and I try to make that clear. It's my vision of what I think their life is. I don't think there are empirical truths in that regard.

I think I try to do a lot of things to weed out casual fans.

I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.

If it's possible to have an enemy without making it personal or moral, then that's what I'm trying to do.

I love songs because by nature they are concise; they sum up. I try to use as few words as possible. It's usually funnier that way, anyway.

I think it's worthwhile to expand your comfort level and just do something awful. I wasn't trying to make music for money.

I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day.

If you want to make something that's aggressive and challenging and peculiar and strange and trying to step outside of a traditional approach, some people aren't going to like it.

There's one thing about weights with action movies: Once your muscles get that tight, it's sometimes hard to stop your movement, especially if you're trying to move with some strength, and with the swords in the film.

Everyone wants to be liked, so of course you want critical acclaim. After that, box office acclaim isn't bad. More than anything I think you have to try and make something you're proud of.

I try not to read too much because what ends up happening is that you ignore the nice reviews and you just focus on the bad reviews. A negative lesson is learned seven times deeper than a positive reinforcement.

I'm the kind of person where you're never done, you just keep perfecting and perfecting and perfecting, or trying to fix things that drive you crazy. Often times when you watch a film, "if I could just get through this minute, I'll be fine." So I think I'm just hard on myself.

I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.

Listen,” F. Jasmine said. “What I’ve been trying to say is this. Doesn’t it strike you as strange that I am I, and you are you? I am F. Jasmine Addams. And you are Berenice Sadie Brown. And we can look at each other, and touch each other, and stay together year in and year out in the same room. Yet always I am I, and you are you. And I can’t ever be anything else but me, and you can ever be anything else but you. Have you ever thought of that? And does it seem to you strange?

There's nothing wrong with trying to reach out to new fans.

I try to stay away from carb-y things at dinner.

I don't think I've had a rocky love life. I'm just trying to figure out what I want.

I think I do overshare, and I sometimes marvel that I do it. But it's sort of - in a way, it's my way of trying to understand myself.

I'm always trying to encourage people not to limit themselves in the same way that many of our parents stayed with one job forever.

I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of an incessant dissatisfaction that I have, that I'm always trying to either expose or fight against or wrestle with.

I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.

Do not be precious about your music within your own world. Try everything you want to try; just because it exists doesn't mean it's done.

You hear stories like that of Canadians trying to get in, but when you go back home, you don't expect that.

I think everything has to come from something that you feel comfortable with and want to be in and sometimes we try to negotiate that limit, but it's not always easy to find the right balance.

I'm not disappointed (at not leading), I'm just trying my best.