All Quotes

I try not to think about any of the production side of things. If you do, you tend to get unfocused and distracted. I just try to think about the character and the scene and what I'm doing.
‐‐ Shanley Caswell

I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.
‐‐ Haruki Murakami

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.
‐‐ Keanu Reeves

I try not to think about negative thoughts and possibilities and disaster and things like that.
‐‐ Rory Cochrane

I try not to think about the expectations of other people because there's always going to be expectations.
‐‐ Stephanie Sigman

I try not to think about the trope or whether or not my books are like 'Fifty' or 'Crossfire' or any other series.
‐‐ Julie Kenner

I try not to think about what people think of me. You can't, because then you get hung up in all the people who love you, and you've also got all the people who hate you, because of what you're doing.
‐‐ Eve Ensler

I try not to think about writers who came before me when I'm writing myself. If I did, given the abundance of literary talent Scotland - and Edinburgh in particular - has bestowed upon the world, I wouldn't be able to get as much as a sentence written.
‐‐ Allan Guthrie

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.
‐‐ Paul Haggis

I try not to think too much about an audience when I'm writing the first draft of a book - at that stage, the prospect of anyone reading what I've written would be enough to scare me into setting my laptop on fire.
‐‐ Robin Wasserman

I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do. I'd be self-conscious if I did. Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think.
‐‐ Kim Gordon

I try not to think too much about where my voice comes from. I'm channeling characters and emotion to come up with beautiful words that tell a story.
‐‐ Gin Wigmore

I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.
‐‐ Trey Parker

I try not to tweet too much; I'm a really sporadic tweeter. I will tweet nonstop for, like, 3 days, and then I won't for a month. I don't make it priority at all; if I feel like doing it, I do it, and if not, then I don't care.
‐‐ Elizabeth Gillies

I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow.
‐‐ Len Wein

I try not to wear anything I have to fidget with - there's nothing worse than wearing something and pulling down the hem and re-adjusting the top. My pet hate is when girls wear those strapless dresses and spend the whole night yanking them up.
‐‐ Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I try not to wear foundation unless I have a giant pimple, which sometimes I do. For the red carpet, I may add a brighter colored lip and darker eyes. But my standard is blush and mascara.
‐‐ Zoe Kravitz

I try not to wear too much makeup, as I think there comes a point where too much makes you look older.
‐‐ Jasmine Guinness

I try not to worry about my appearance as much as possible.
‐‐ Ellar Coltrane

I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print.
‐‐ Laurell K. Hamilton

I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.
‐‐ Tom Wilson

I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.
‐‐ Christopher Walken

I try not to worry about things that I can't control.
‐‐ Paula Radcliffe

I try not to worry about what that's going to look like. If you worry about looking stupid, that's when you look really stupid.
‐‐ Rob Schneider

I try not to write jokes that are mean. I try my best to write jokes that are pretty universal and jokes that don't attack anyone. I know I often fall short of that and end up taking unfair swipes at people, but I try not to.
‐‐ Simon Rich

I try not to write songs in which men glamorize their own need for approval from women. That's kinda a bogus way to go out. But I try to do this quietly. I'm not about to go around telling people how they should or shouldn't think. My feminism is for me.
‐‐ John Darnielle

I try personally not to be nostalgic.
‐‐ Daniel Clowes

I try really hard not to be attached to success.
‐‐ Andie MacDowell

I try really hard to give my kids as much independence as I can, caring mostly about their character: Are they kind? Generous? Do they work hard?
‐‐ Elisabeth Shue

I try really hard to separate myself from other celebrity brands.
‐‐ Lauren Conrad

I try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out.
‐‐ Martha Raddatz

I try so hard to be true to myself. I hope I can help other girls realize that they don't have to do things just because everyone else is doing them.
‐‐ Bindi Irwin

I try so hard to live in the moment - I don't think ahead very much.
‐‐ Sarah McLachlan

I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.
‐‐ Kate Clinton

I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.
‐‐ Herbie Hancock

I try to absorb all types of style and design. I don't try and restrict my thinking. I enjoy the old and the new. You need that broad perspective to create something different.
‐‐ Chad Hurley

I try to acknowledge both the sacred and the silly in my work. That goes for the live show as well. If I find myself in my head or dwelling in seriousness, I think of my friends back home and how they'd be laughing at me.
‐‐ Jason Mraz

I try to act out of faith.
‐‐ Marian Wright Edelman

I try to act with my whole body and, for better or worse, this is the face that's attached to it.
‐‐ Simon Helberg

I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.
‐‐ Roland Joffe

I try to allow the spirit of the character to live through me. That's the only way I know how to approach acting. I have to live it.
‐‐ Ving Rhames

I try to always go for something... very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on the screen, which is essentially a third-person medium.
‐‐ Kazuo Ishiguro

I try to always have a hair cut that I don't have to style every day, so I'll usually just let my hair air dry.
‐‐ Allison Williams

I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks. I like living with living things.
‐‐ Phillip Lim

I try to always motivate young kids who want to be singers or actors or whatever it is they want to be that anything is possible with hard work. It doesn't matter where you're from or what language you speak - as long as you work hard, you can achieve those goals.
‐‐ Prince Royce

I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on the character. In Hollywood, what more can you ask for. You want a consummate professional.
‐‐ Martin Lawrence

I try to always stretch myself to fit the characters that have been presented.
‐‐ Kathy Bates

I try to answer all my fan mail. Sometimes I get questions from people who obviously only read the Wiki but haven't read the books. I'm like, 'But you have to read the book or you're not going to get it.'
‐‐ Cassandra Clare

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
‐‐ Joan Miro

I try to ask visual questions. I'll ask what someone was wearing, if that seems relevant. If possible, I'll walk over the same ground that they're depicting. Of course, I can never get it precisely as it was.
‐‐ Joe Sacco