All Quotes

I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue.
‐‐ Ming-Na Wen

I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.
‐‐ Patrick Swayze

I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.
‐‐ Martha Wainwright

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.
‐‐ Shawn Johnson

I'm trying to stop focusing on my flaws and appreciate what I love about my body.
‐‐ Emily VanCamp

I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.
‐‐ Irrfan Khan

I'm trying to take all the media attention with a grain of salt. It is nice, but you are never as great as people say you are. And you're never as bad as others say you are.
‐‐ Kelly Olynyk

I'm trying to talk about challenging subjects people might not like and trying to find relief as we discuss it.
‐‐ Mara Brock Akil

I'm trying to talk to my kids in Japanese, because I'm not a pro English speaker. My wife speaks to them in English. That's her first language. I don't want my kids to feel the same as me when I was studying English. It was so frustrating.
‐‐ Miyavi

I'm trying to teach my daughter about healthy eating.
‐‐ Carnie Wilson

I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.
‐‐ Charlie Kaufman

I'm trying to tell a story, to entertain. I try and do something that might just take people's minds off their troubles.
‐‐ Bruce Nash

I'm trying to tell kids if they are gay, it's OK to be gay. I've tried to tell families if they have a gay family member to accept them and love them as they always have.
‐‐ Jeanne Phillips

I'm trying to tell you that there's a new wave on the continent. A new wave of openness and democratization in which, since 2000, more than two-thirds of African countries have had multi-party democratic elections. Not all of them have been perfect, or will be, but the trend is very clear.
‐‐ Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I'm trying to think how I impressed my wife. We had an on-stage kiss, and I really went for it. Because I liked her. Usually you can get away with it being just technical, but it was a problem when I ended up kissing my wife on the set. I'd say I stopped acting and kissed her on set.
‐‐ David Walton

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.
‐‐ Joel Osteen

I'm trying to travel more. Like, intentionally travel. I really want to go and implicate myself in a city and meet people and see how they live and get outside of my world a bit.
‐‐ David Alpay

I'm trying to treat it as a hobby. Making bread and butter as an actor is tough.
‐‐ Frank Silva

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.
‐‐ John Shirley

I'm trying to understand cosmology, why the Big Bang had the properties it did. And it's interesting to think that connects directly to our kitchens and how we can make eggs, how we can remember one direction of time, why causes precede effects, why we are born young and grow older. It's all because of entropy increasing.
‐‐ Sean M. Carroll

I'm trying to understand how time works. And that's a huge question that has lots of different aspects to it.
‐‐ Sean M. Carroll

I'm trying to unify us internally so that we can - instead of firing on each other - fire on the Democrats and communicate a message and start talking about issues.
‐‐ Jason Chaffetz

I'm trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing tracks for new pop songs. It's really hard trying to use the format and write a pop song on top of avant-garde music, so we'll see. It could be cool, or it could totally flop.
‐‐ Autre Ne Veut

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.
‐‐ Sean Lennon

I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
‐‐ Parker Posey

I'm trying to work on my modelling career and remove myself from the whole FHM stigma. I want to be seen as a classic model.
‐‐ Reeva Steenkamp

I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.
‐‐ Michael Caine

I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
‐‐ Patrick Carney

I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination.
‐‐ Billy Collins

I'm tryna figure out when I'm gonna do my version of the Moonwalk... It's coming, you know? That Dolla $ign moonwalk is comin'.
‐‐ Ty Dolla Sign

I'm turned off by the groupie thing. I'm a romantic; I like finding the right woman, and if it works, it works.
‐‐ Joe Perry

I'm turning 22, so I want to start getting into work that reflects where I'm at in life now.
‐‐ Kimbra

I'm turning into a stricter dad.
‐‐ David Duchovny

I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
‐‐ Sam Taylor-Johnson

I'm typically a 'just drink water' kind of guy. I was a bodybuilder in high school, so I used to - food to me was, 'there are this many grams of carbohydrates and proteins, and I need these micronutrients in order to grow and be fit,' and I ate in order to live and not live in order to eat, and I think most people are the opposite.
‐‐ Aaron Patzer

I'm typically not a heels person.
‐‐ Jenny Lewis

I'm typically single. I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

I'm ugly.
‐‐ Amy Winehouse

I'm Ulster Presbyterian. We understand the need to work hard from an early age.
‐‐ James Nesbitt

I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.
‐‐ Courtney Love

I'm un-smiteable. That's something I realized very young.
‐‐ Anders Holm

I'm unable to do the thing that Broadway actors do in plays, sometimes for years. The same exact blocking, the same exact lines. I'm a little bit uncomfortable with that. Every night I'm looking for ways to try something else.
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

I'm unable to ignore the gift that God gave me, so I'm going to sing.
‐‐ Lisa Nicole Carson

I'm unapologetic for the fact my Christian faith defines my decision-making process. I will bring those Christian principles and that mindset to Frankfort.
‐‐ Matt Bevin

I'm unbelievably superstitious.
‐‐ Jillian Michaels

I'm unbelievably ticklish. When I was a little kid, my sisters would hold me down and tickle me until I peed my pants.
‐‐ Ronda Rousey

I'm uncomfortable, frankly, with the hype about Africa. We went from one extreme... to, like, Africa now is the best thing after sliced bread.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim

I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
‐‐ Yusef Komunyakaa

I'm uncomfortable with the limelight. I'm not the type to go to the places where I know I'll be seen. I'd rather keep a low profile.
‐‐ Rachel Hurd-Wood