Trying Quotes - Page 172

Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.

When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away.

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you might call a painter's ideal... the kind that's always existed... No. They couldn't care less about that.

Early on - certainly in acting - you really have to take whatever you can get. So I understand well how difficult it can be to be in this position where people are just not hearing what you're trying to say or are saying. I recognize that.

To reach out to you when I'm in need, and to try to be here for you when you need me back. And to feel such tenderness when I look at you that I want to stand between you and all the world: and yet also to lift you up and carry you above the strong currents of life; and at the same time, I would be glad to stand always like this, at a distance, watching you, the beauty of you.

I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.

The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there is that Hollywood is an Oriental city. As long as you do that, you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else, you'll perish.

If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly.

No matter how much you try to pretend and force yourself and maybe fight against love and try to forget or be oblivious to it, there's no way to fight it. I think when it's there, it's there.

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. It seems almost as if progress itself and our fight against the increase of entropy intrinsically must end in the downhill path from which we are trying to escape.

I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it.

I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.

We were telling everybody we weren't getting back together when we were in the studio actually recording. We wanted to try it on, to see how it would fit.

An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.

I'm very much an admirer of people who are reaching for things and trying to survive.

If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

I try to produce whatever I like, it doesn't really matter what it is. It could be Progressive, it could be deeper, it doesn't matter to me. I produce whatever I like and I hope people enjoy it.

As long as I try, there’s always a chance of getting up. It’s not the end until you give up.

What's your heart telling you to do? I don't know.' Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it.

Don’t try to plan everything out to the very last detail. I’m a big believer in just getting it out there: create a minimal viable product or website, launch it, and get feedback.

When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it's the beginning of time.

I enjoy experimenting and trying new beauty products. It is fun to try new looks!

Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions.

I'm trying to figure things out in the world. No one knows what this life thing is all about - there's no manual. Just trying to figure it out.