I'm Trying Quotes

#1. I'm trying to conduct only five months a year, and the rest will be composing time. I'm trying to spend as much as I can out of those months here in L.A., because for creative work, this is a fantastic place.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#2. Don't try and change me. Women always try to change men. It never works. I'm not trying to change you. I'm trying to work with you.

Lisa Scottoline

#3. What I'm trying to get at is, as bad as everything seems, I think, at its heart, life is good. It doesn't throw anything at us that it knows we can't handle - and, even if it takes its time, it turns everything right side up again.

Alexandra Bracken

#4. Look, tiny - i'm trying to be on my best behavior, but you have to understand - i'm always standing on the edge of something bad. and sometimes someone like you can make me look the other way, so that i don't know how close i am to falling over. but i always end up turning my head. always.

David Levithan

#5. I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression.

David Duchovny

#6. Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.

Zoe Saldana

#7. You just need to be accepted for who you are and be proud of who you are and that is what I'm trying to do.

Lewis Hamilton

#8. You must think I'm trying to charge by the inch, in which case I think you've overpaid.

R.J. Lewis

#9. You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book.

Shelby Lynne

#10. Usually I'm trying to work with people that I've worked with before, so we have a certain amount of know-how and what we're going to do together.

Jason Statham

#11. I know what makes me happy. I know what makes me miserable. I'm trying to stay on the happy side.

Chamique Holdsclaw

#12. All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy.

Zachary Cole Smith

#13. I'm trying to make some sense out of the phrase "Everything happens for a reason," and I think I've figured out what the reason is - to pissed me off.

Cecelia Ahern

#14. I never focus on contraction. I'm focusing on my muscle. I'm not focusing on a certain style of lifting or contracting. I'm just trying to get the weight up. I'm trying to build muscle.

Ronnie Coleman

#15. I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.

Ali Larter

#16. I love you, you know that? You're so selfless.
Don't paint me a saint, Gracie. I have alot of making up to do for the shit I've caused but I'm trying.

Annie Brewer

#17. Some people chase money. Some people chase fame. Some chase greatness - and that's what I'm trying to do.

J. J. Watt

#18. The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

Paul Auster

#19. He already knows what I look like," Cath said. "There's no point in being tricky about it now."
"How is doing your hair
and maybe putting on some lip gloss
being tricky?"
"It's like I'm trying to distract him with something shiny.

Rainbow Rowell

#20. I'm trying to expand the notion of curating. Exhibitions need not only take place in galleries, need not only involve displaying objects. Art can appear where we expect it least.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#21. Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat. The

Suzanne Collins

#22. I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's really all I'm trying to do. I think that artists and pop culture identities are used to simplify what it means to be a human and pigeon-hole people into looking up to one role model.

Mac Miller

#23. All I'm trying to do is wipe out heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and obesity.

Nathan Pritikin

#24. You need to eat what's local. So that's what I'm trying to do - just be as close to nature as possible.

Valentina Zelyaeva

#25. I sighed. "Mercury must be in retrograde. Everybody's touchy and having it out with someone. I'm trying to remain neutral. I feel like Switzerland.

Suzanne M. Trauth

#26. Invariably, what I'm trying to do is more ambitious than the budget, but we manage to do it somehow.

Terry Gilliam

#27. I'm trying to be like, "Hey, dude, you're super happy, this is everything you've ever dreamed of - if you don't have somebody to hold hands with right now, everything's going to be OK, bro."

Justin Vernon

#28. Every day I'm trying to be more humble and how do you do that? I guess, every day, we have mass. Every day, I pray the rosary. That's what I do.

Jim Caviezel

#29. Essentially, wines are fermented grape juice, so I'm trying to make the point that the wine world is about scores and marketing and kind of creating a scarce resource where they don't really exist.

Joe Bastianich

#30. When I play videogames I'm trying to go deep every pitch. I'm definitely not going to try to do that in real life. In the (video)game I'm trying to leave the yard.

Dustin Pedroia

#31. I'm trying to break myself of that habit [of not writing out a first draft ] because I'm working on a couple novels and I know if I tried to write those books the way I wrote the stories it would take me years to finish.

Donald Ray Pollock

#32. The trouble with everything, these days, for me, is time. There is only one me. There are a ridiculous number of demands on my time. There are so many things I'm trying to do. It's so much more about when I'm going to get time to do it, if I get time.

Neil Gaiman

#33. Juliette, please, tell me what I'm supposed to do. How am I supposed to feel? It's one shitty thing right after another and I'm trying to be okay
God, I'm trying so hard but it's really freaking difficult and I miss
I miss you, I miss you so much it's killing me.

Tahereh Mafi

#34. Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I'm trying to do more. When I'm singing, I don't want you to just hear the melody. I want you to relive the story, because most of the songs have pretty good storytelling.

B.B. King

#35. What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part.

Flavor Flav

#36. Whether I'm trying to figure out what the U.S. military is doing in Latin America or Africa, Afghanistan or Qatar, the response is remarkably uniform - obstruction and obfuscation, hurdles and hindrances. In short, the good old-fashioned military runaround.

Nick Turse

#37. I'm trying to find the truth in myself. To play somebody else doesn't interest me. It's not the focus of my life. I can get through most scenes and do the acting part of it, and at best, I'm going to be mediocre.

Neil Diamond

#38. Nine to five is how ya survive, I ain't trying to survive
I'm trying to live it to the limit and love it alive

Jay-Z

#39. Most people, they're trying to escape from boredom, but I'm trying to get into the thick of boredom. That's why I'm not complaining when I say my life is boring. It was enough to make my wife bail out, though.

Haruki Murakami

#40. I love to read about healthy eating and preach to my husband, who doesn't listen. Now I'm trying to teach it to my daughters.

Martina Mcbride

#41. I'm trying to forget just as much as you probably are. Look, I'm not stupid. I know that we can never be the same. But I still wouldn't change anything. It was the plan and it worked. You're not dead and that's worth it to me. Maybe you'll forgive me someday.

James Dashner

#42. I'm trying. I'm going to keep trying with you.

Laurelin Paige

#43. I'm trying to be as green as I can. As an airline pilot, I have a carbon footprint that's a size 10, so it's pretty hard.

Bruce Dickinson

#44. I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.

Corey Haim

#45. I'm trying to get hold of them ... the trouble is a lot of the companies that recorded and produced the albums went bust, so I don't know where to get the masters.

Cy Coleman

#46. I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is.

Mos Def

#47. It's awesome, because in live-action, most of my comedies have been rated R, so I'm trying to make adults laugh. While animation is a completely different world where you're trying to make children laugh. So that difference is a blast to do.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

#48. I'm trying to put things in the best light, but a turd's a turd, whatever light it's in!

Joe Abercrombie

#49. When I'm working on games I don't think necessarily about what the end benefit of the game is going to be. Typically I'm trying to think of: "What can I do that is going to find new ways to entertain and surprise people."

Shigeru Miyamoto

#50. In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I'm trying to get at more efficiently.

Nicholson Baker

#51. I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress.

Marilyn Monroe

#52. What effect am I having on this world? I'm not sure yet. I have my worries, doubts and fears, but the way I'm trying to affect the world is with positive, right action.

Robert Gossett

#53. I'm trying to feel sorry for you, really I am,"North said."If you wait just a moment I'm sure the tears will come.

Alexandra Bracken

#54. What I'm trying to say is that I spent the last four months learning to be alone, avoiding the world, hating pretty much anyone who so much as blinked at me. But when I am with you, I don't want to be that person anymore.

Andrea Cremer

#55. I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.

Terry Gilliam

#56. When I first quit my day job, I was terrified. I called my editors and said I'm trying to make a go of this, and they threw every contract at me they could. And for two years, I had a book or an anthology out every month.

MaryJanice Davidson

#57. I always try to push myself, even more now because evidently I'm not doing something right. I'm trying to do the little things that count in practice to try and get my job back.

Rajon Rondo

#58. I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account.

Jamie Foxx

#59. I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language to make a beautiful sentence.

Lynne Tillman

#60. He released her arm and crossed his own over his chest. "I'm trying not to jump to conclusions. Spit it out."
"I'm more of a swallowing kind of a girl."
Holy hell.

Katee Robert

#61. Evie replied with an eye-roll. "Do you think you can manage to not steal anything while I'm gone?"
"The only thing I'm trying to steal is your heart, doll." Sam smirked.
"You're not that talented a thief, Sam Lloyd.

Libba Bray

#62. Woman, I'm trying to fight here! Or has that escaped your attention?

Melina Marchetta

#63. People were having sex before I was born. My parents had sex before I was born, nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to stop sex. I'm trying to stop people from dying from sex.

Mechai Viravaidya

#64. I'm trying to get good message out to the people. It's like the scriptures because you know what the scriptures are in the bible. Words of Jah, words of Christ, words of Rasta and everything that's righteous are in the scriptures unto I and I.

Sizzla

#65. Something I learned early in college (is) to not worry about what I can't controlBut what I can control is my attitude, my effort, my focus every single day and that's what I'm trying to worry about.

Tim Tebow

#66. The reason I act is because I'm trying to understand why people are as they are.

Kelly Reilly

#67. I'm trying figuring out how to be the best person I can be. But it's been a process of trial and error.

David Arquette

#68. I'm trying hard not to use a specific reference, but you'll probably know it's you after the first sentence.

Donald Glover

#69. I'm trying to photosynthesize like a plant. I'm off eating. Although I am making a lot of banana daiquiries in my room in the blender I've got, with lots of powdered vitamins in them. This tour I'm going to get some Afghani hangings and put them in my room, so that my hotel rooms look like mosques.

Jimmy Page

#70. I like your orange dog." Nadia taps her finger near the fox I'm trying to draw.
I lean against my hand to hide my smile. "Thanks.

Emery Lord

#71. I've done things I'm not proud of and I'm trying really hard to make up for those things by being a decent guy. And decent guys don't act the way I've been acting around you, so I'm going to stop.

Sabrina Sol

#72. I was able to apply ukulele to whatever I'm trying to write. It's become part of songwriting for me, the knowledge I gained from hearing the melodies come out, and then applying that to guitar or vocals.

Eddie Vedder

#73. I'm trying to take a positive out the disappointment, but I'm also trying to do what's best for my career as well.

Dathan Ritzenhein

#74. So many of my friends are actors, and so many of them are great, and they're losing jobs to people who have never been in plays before; I understand that sometimes I'm part of the problem. But I'm trying to figure out how to balance it.

Anna D. Shapiro

#75. I'm trying not to delve into my world of abstraction and self-indulgence. But I haven't. When I sit down and I try not to [be abstract], it comes out really forced and awkward.

Spencer Krug

#76. I never go about a new project as if I'm trying ot redefine myself. I just like to work, and I'm excited by material I find challenging and - if it's a comedy - exceptionally funny.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#77. The kind of music I'm trying to make is conscious, to make people think and feel and get inspired.

Matisyahu

#78. I don't want to be at a point where I'm trying to steal the spotlight from the team or anyone else or make it seem like it's just about me.

Tyler Beede

#79. I'm trying to take pictures of less and less.

Joel Sternfeld

#80. As a journalist, as a screenwriter and as a director, I'm trying to tell compelling and truthful stories.

Peter Landesman

#81. That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.

Taylor Dayne

#82. I'm trying to be good with my skin care now that I'm getting older. I really do think it's from the inside - so exercise, hydration, sleep, sex.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#83. I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.

Jonathan Carroll

#84. I'm not Michelangelo but I would like to be that. I'll never be him but I'm trying to strive to do that in my work.

Brian Bird

#85. What I'm trying to argue, as passionately as I can, is that the Jesus story isn't worth dying for, it's worth living for. Jesus presents a third way, a way of being in the worth that embraces the Sermon on the Mount, with its challenge to violence and greed.

Jay Parini

#86. I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.

William P. Young

#87. I'm trying to figure out the trick of working to live as opposed to living to work, but I don't know if I've quite stumbled upon it just yet.

Brittany Murphy

#88. As a comic, I've heard gunshots while I'm trying to get to sleep. I've performed where people wanted to do you harm after the show because of something you said.

Billy Gardell

#89. I've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I'm trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying.

Bob Balaban

#90. What I'm trying to say is the Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and frankly, I would never want to see that repeated.

Paul LePage

#91. Don't ignore me while I'm trying to break
up with you!

Kristen Ashley

#92. I'm trying to cut down my cursing.

Solange Knowles

#93. I'm trying to do what's right, but I don't know if there is a such a thing as a right option anymore. Just different kids of wrong."
Breakfast narrowed his eyes at her. "Don't get too comfortable with that notion.

Josephine Angelini

#94. When I'm on a stage, I don't feel like this dude who's sitting here drinking Amstel Lights. I'm trying to temporarily become something else that can deliver a feeling.

Alex Scally

#95. It struck me at some point that the things I wanted to say had to be wordless. I had to renounce words in order to go deep into the practice of making materials and textures that would express what I'm trying to say more accurately.

Arca

#96. Sir John Hall was a multi-millionaire when I came back to Newcastle. With all the players I've bought, I'm trying to make him just an ordinary millionaire.

Kevin Keegan

#97. You are what you do. That's what I'm trying to tell you. What we do defines us. However we behave, conduct our lives ... that's real. The rest is a story for publication.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#98. I don't ever want to seem like I'm trying to command attention through the way I dress - but I have certainly been known to wear everything from a flamboyant suit to something very mellow and classic. I aim to just look and feel confident.

Cam Newton

#99. I'm a writer. If I'm staring at you, I'm not being rude. I'm trying to decide if you need to go in a book.
If you're a snot, I may be trying to decide how to kill you.

Anonymous

#100. The important aspect as we look at this budget, and as we look at previous budgets, is the budget system - what I'm trying to get at is changing budgeting itself in Wisconsin.

Scott McCallum