All Quotes

I try to please everyone.
‐‐ Ang Lee

I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.
‐‐ Kevin Costner

I try to practice with my life.
‐‐ Herbie Hancock

I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

I try to present something that is full of time. Not timeless, but full of time. I never like a work where we try to update it, but it's still not interesting to see a work that is dated. If one is successful, then a work can be full of time. And time is very complex.
‐‐ Robert Wilson

I try to preserve whatever balance society has between public and personal life. I never try to eat on the subway. I never try to listen to loud music on the subway.
‐‐ Alex Karpovsky

I try to pride myself in having really quick feet and being able to set up and throw balls in time.
‐‐ Jared Goff

I try to pride myself on being involved with the fans and taking pictures when they're asked for because I know I was that little kid one day that really looked up to stars like myself, and I try to give them that on my behalf.
‐‐ Patrick Kane

I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because often I find, if you get out, more things come to you.
‐‐ Noah Baumbach

I try to protect my loved ones, the people I share my life with, because they don't have a public life like me. I want to keep their lives private out of respect for them.
‐‐ Georges St-Pierre

I try to pull my inspirations from everyday life. If I came across a situation that is like, 'Oh, that's going to be scary, that's going to be frightening,' that's when I get inspired, and I put that into my films.
‐‐ James Wan

I try to push a single idea to its absolute limit. So for all of those ideas that existed in the story, you attempt to find a physical realisation in the space.
‐‐ Simon McBurney

I try to push and find something awkward. The gems to me are truly awkward situations, and you have to have somebody who's willing to fail because those can't be conceived. They never play if they're thought about and discussed too much. You have to create them right at the moment and look for something honest.
‐‐ Gore Verbinski

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
‐‐ J. J. Abrams

I try to put all I am as a person into what I do. My intelligence, my emotion. I've done that in everything.
‐‐ Tom Heinsohn

I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers.
‐‐ Jan Karon

I try to put myself in others' shoes: How does any country give up any sovereignty and expect to survive as a government? I don't think that any Philippine president, or any leader for that matter, can afford to give up any portion of territorial sovereignty. That would be political suicide.
‐‐ Benigno Aquino III

I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.
‐‐ Neil Finn

I try to put out fires when bizarre rumors get started.
‐‐ Chris Weitz

I try to put out what I'm going to wear the night before. It just makes things a little bit more seamless in the mornings. There is definitely, you know, sort of a trusty work uniform - a chic, feminine dress that's easy and versatile.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump

I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.
‐‐ John Frusciante

I try to reach out to my idols.
‐‐ Thia Megia

I try to read all news sources - not just CNN or FOX, but worldwide papers and journals, to get opinions from every end of the spectrum - and then I like to try to find out the cut and dried facts - and go from there.
‐‐ Eric Stoltz

I try to read as much as I can - all the time, really. And I absolutely love going to the cinema, especially during the day.
‐‐ Alison Goldfrapp

I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

I try to read everything that I can about myself because Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and he thought he was winning!
‐‐ James Blunt

I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.
‐‐ Hume Cronyn

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

I try to read the audience, see what they're in the mood for.
‐‐ Dick Dale

I try to read writers who are better than me because it inspires me to be better.
‐‐ Jojo Moyes

I try to really capitalize off of what other rappers really can't do. There are opportunities that rappers I love simply can't get, because... you know... I don't have the tattoos; I have a different image.
‐‐ Drake

I try to really focus on the actors I'm working with and kind of read and respond to their behavior.
‐‐ Jaime Murray

I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.
‐‐ Emily Giffin

I try to refrain from the alarmist statement, really I do. It's bad for the liver and worries the dog, who has plenty enough to worry about as it is.
‐‐ Christopher Buckley

I try to relish each of the roles I play in life. If I'm cooking dinner for the kids, I throw on my polka-dotted apron. I might don a smart blazer if I am doing a work presentation. If I play a rock show, there may indeed be glitter and fishnets involved. It's my way of saying, 'Thank you, I am glad to be here.'
‐‐ Corin Tucker

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring and it's not about the wedding. It's a grave thing, getting married. And it's easy to get swept up in the wrong things.
‐‐ Gwyneth Paltrow

I try to remember what it was like to be a kid in New York. I lived in different parts of my childhood in Manhattan on the Upper West Side, where 'When You Reach Me' is set, and also in the Midwood section of Brooklyn.
‐‐ Rebecca Stead

I try to represent specific experiences of specific characters, and that's all I want to try to do. I don't ever try to think about representing a culture, because its impossible, and someone will fault you. And it just doesn't interest me.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page of the script. I fill in the blanks.
‐‐ Viggo Mortensen

I try to respect everybody out here: players, caddies, fans, media.
‐‐ Phil Mickelson

I try to respect the rules of the silent movies and I tried to make signification to make sense, and also the crew were very good and the fact that we shot in LA in the real Hollywood, studios and houses. We shot in the bed of Mary Pickford, and you cannot be any more accurate than that, so that helped a lot.
‐‐ Michel Hazanavicius

I try to run so I can eat anything I want. I feel it's a luxury to be able to splurge on something like foie gras and not have to think about it.
‐‐ Daniel Humm

I try to satisfy the desires that people have to have their books personalized. That's a value, or feature, of bibliophilia that may vanish. How do you get your e-book signed? The idea of people standing in line to get my signature in their book, it's hard to turn them away.
‐‐ Chris Van Allsburg

I try to save being angry for the really important moments - for special occasions.
‐‐ Jon Cryer

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.
‐‐ Mandy Patinkin

I try to search for roles where the character is not dependent on how she looks, but it is hard because I didn't know anyone in this industry, so I started as an extra and fought.
‐‐ Amber Heard

I try to see everything I do. It's a good learning tool for me. You kind of remember what you were going for when you were shooting it, and then see how it comes across in the context of what comes before and after it.
‐‐ Jason Bateman

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.
‐‐ Liz Phair

I try to see my films just once. it's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it.
‐‐ Juliette Binoche