Trying Quotes - Page 733

I'm not trying to prove that I'm capable of doing many things.

If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.

I don't approach my acting as just saying a few lines and then going off-screen. It's a craft. I really invest in trying to make it a craft.

If I wore a sleeveless shirt, people would try to feed me after the match.

I try not to take myself too seriously. I like to have a good time.

I used to, like, hit for a half hour and then go eat Cheetos the rest of the day, come out and drill forehands. Now I'm really trying to make it happen, being professional, really going for it, and I miss my Cheetos.

Obviously you try to keep as much of your private life as private as you can.

It becomes tricky, and you start to think about the cramps rather than just actually what you're trying to do on the court, which is obviously win the match.

I think we get on with living our lives like everybody else does. Where we're at in music is trying to explain what's going around us either directly or by analogy and trying to create a parallel, an analog, sometimes musical, sometimes dramatic, that might be truthful.

When you're taking your one-thousandth selfie of the day that might be the moment you try to kill the person by lethal hugging!

I just go out there and try to help my teammates any way I can. They are on me a lot to be in the lineup and do stuff for the team, but sometimes it's just...frustrating.

The whole decision to do my show was that I was trying to "true up" my work life and my personal life and I wanted the principles in both of them to be the same. And the only way that I could think of to do that was to make a show about exploring cultures through food that demonstrated those principles with every story that we told.

Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.

What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.

I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.

I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.

The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.

Audiences like to be challenged and to be actively involved and try to guess an outcome.

Sometimes people close a door because they’re trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.

I don't call myself an 'independent filmmaker'. Either a concept works within a studio system or it doesn't. If it does then you should try to get a studio budget so that you can use all of the tools they have to get what you want. If it doesn't then you look elsewhere, or make it yourself.

The human animal is a fascinating beast. Watching people and trying to learn how and why they do things, and to engage in the somewhat futile attempt to explain them...it's my reason for living I guess...to ask 'why?'. I don't know what else to do with myself. In some strange way it's probably an attempt to understand myself and my own relationship to the world.

I try not to release songs that I'm not proud of, and even songs that I don't connect with.

Trends come and go, and if you try to latch onto a trend it will likely be passé by the time you have completed your manuscript.

You don't try and put rockets under prime ministers.

In the past five weeks I've trained hard, trying to get my ankle back to where I want it to be