Trying Quotes - Page 199

I used to get out there and have a thousand swing thoughts. Now I try not to have any.

It's just a campy blast. I just want to do as little as I can and make it good, and try not to sell out. I'm sure I will, but I'm just trying to postpone it.

You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway.

It's so off the charts and off anybody's radar screen, that place. It might as well be another planet. Just try to find somebody who's been to Madagascar. Nobody has been to Madagascar.

What's the last thing a drummer says in a band? 'Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?'

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.

I would encourage anybody struggling with their sexuality to go with their heart. If it's not an appropriate time, there will be one later. Never, ever try to rush into anything - do it in your own time.

Trying to stay in the moment as an actor and being really [present in] what you're doing and the scene that's going on and where the characters have come from, it wasn't difficult, per se, to really embody and embrace.

When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.

The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.

I never took drug to escape. I know some people take drugs to escape, but I took drugs because I was an experimenter. And an artist. And I was always trying to go to the other side of that veil and get information, like all writers have done through the millennia. To get some insights on how the whole thing works, if there's any way to know how it works, and write about it.

It's really annoying when you're trying to get to know someone and she doesn't pay attention to you because she's obsessed with her phone.

I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen.

Just remember who you are... The world will try to change you into someone else. Don't let them. That's the best advice anyone can give you.

A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.

The challenge is not finding the attitude, but it's really just being open and willing to go for it and try different things, and having a director that you can trust. The attitude is not something that I intended or created.

The big challenge for me was just trying to ignore the embarrassment of being an actor. It's a pretty embarrassing thing to do. You've got people pointing cameras at you and hundreds of people watching you, as you're trying to be great. And often, almost every time, you're not.

I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.

But one of the big lessons I have learned from my journey is you can’t please everyone, so don’t try.

It's Not My Job To Try To Persuade People To Love Me, It's Only To Try To Make Them Love The Music

As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.

As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.

If beating yourself up worked you'd be rich, thin, and happy. Try loving yourself instead.

I don't try to kind of go for the overly sympathetic. I don't really like sympathy; I don't like it for myself. Sometimes sympathy you feel like, you're kind of trying to victimize someone.