Trying Quotes - Page 162

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

I don't have to go around trying to save everybody anymore; that's not my job.

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.

It’s like, you know, it doesn’t matter what you do, even if you try to replicate an experience down to every last detail, it’ll never be the way it was when it happened naturally the first time.

Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage.

I just try to use my own life to build a human song: something that people can relate to in some way. It's not like the psychiatrist's couch or anything.

You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style.

I don't come up with ideas, they come to me. I write them down and try to convey what's wrong with me to the audience as best I can.

The more you try to suppress us, the larger we get.

Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.

He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.

The more things a government undertakes to do, the fewer things it can do completely. When the government tries to do everything it must do everything badly.

Between takes I find it difficult to switch off and then try and re-emerge myself in the part, so I try to stay in that frame of mine all day. It can be exhausting and you lose a sense of self, but it is the method that works best for me.

We are not trying to solve the world's problems... However, even in the midst of hatred and killing, there are things worth living for. A wonderful encounter, or a thing of beauty can still exist.

Be as honest with yourself as possible, and try to make friends with people who like you for you - not an iteration of who you are, or who you think you should be - but really like you for you. And when you're creating whatever you want to do in your life, just try to create and put out the truest version of yourself into the world.

Golfers find it a very trying matter to turn at the waist, more particularly if they have a lot of waist to turn

Everything should be considered as a gift of God. When anything wrong comes to you and you think it is a gift, it won't stay with you. Do you know that? Try it sometime.

The first thing I think about is music, and the last thing I think about is music. I'm like some Monk. I don't see a lot of daylight. I hang out with musicians, I hang out with directors and I just try to spend as much of my life as possible playing music.

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler.

We were made to be human beings here, and when people try to be anything else, they generally get into some sort of scrapes.

Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while.