All Quotes

I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me.
‐‐ Michael Gambon

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.
‐‐ Molly Parker

I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.
‐‐ Dan Rather

I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.
‐‐ Stephen Ambrose

I've always tried to be nice to people, so that sort of translates into popularity, I guess.
‐‐ Andy Richter

I've always tried to be very seductive. I want the paintings to draw you in. But I don't want to just glamour you. I want to make an image of the time we live in and reflect it back.
‐‐ Marilyn Minter

I've always tried to come up with funny dancing since I was young, to attract girls' attention for one thing. It's got to be funny. I can't pull it off with serious dances. That's not me.
‐‐ Psy

I've always tried to control everything and every aspect of my life, and this is maybe the biggest lesson I've learnt with motherhood - you just can't control everything, and I'm much more relaxed now about unexpected changes and things that happen.
‐‐ Margherita Missoni

I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.
‐‐ B. B. King

I've always tried to do my very best, and I want to be the very best age, whatever age I am.
‐‐ Ann-Margret

I've always tried to do pictures that don't date.
‐‐ David Bailey

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.
‐‐ Aung San Suu Kyi

I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
‐‐ Ted Lange

I've always tried to fight against, 'Oh, who's that small funny actress? Let's get her.'
‐‐ Imelda Staunton

I've always tried to figure out what people think of themselves and what they think they're projecting.
‐‐ Amy Heckerling

I've always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around.
‐‐ Adam West

I've always tried to get around writing love songs, I guess because I've always had a hard time saying, 'I love you.'
‐‐ Jenny Lewis

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.
‐‐ Beverly Sills

I've always tried to have a healthy take on the characters I play; they are only characters I play.
‐‐ Steve Buscemi

I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy.
‐‐ Annie Lennox

I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.
‐‐ Michael Douglas

I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world.
‐‐ Serj Tankian

I've always tried to live in the future and think about things and how to make things better. If you have great-grandchildren around, and their pictures are looking at you, well, that's the future.
‐‐ George P. Shultz

I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.
‐‐ Peter Jackson

I've always tried to not let movie, television or theatre be all that my life is about. I've always tried to get involved in the community or my family now I have kids.
‐‐ David Morse

I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.
‐‐ Vera Wang

I've always tried to seek out environments with excitement.
‐‐ Kenneth Chenault

I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
‐‐ Carl Forti

I've always tried to stay clear of being labeled, putting a label on what type of music that I make.
‐‐ Chino Moreno

I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.
‐‐ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I've always tried to stay true to my authentic self.
‐‐ Katie Couric

I've always tried to vote my conscience.
‐‐ Leonard Lance

I've always tried to walk a line between being incisive and acerbic, but not mean. Sometimes I'm going to tip over the line a little bit, but that's usually a line I try not to cross.
‐‐ Mark Leibovich

I've always tried to work hard. I'm not trying to show anybody up or do something spectacular for attention.
‐‐ Roy Halladay

I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort.
‐‐ John Updike

I've always turned down stuff where you had to be fat. I may be fat, but that's not why you play a role. If the guy has to be that way, I say get somebody else because I'm not doing any fat acting.
‐‐ Richard Griffiths

I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.
‐‐ Mackenzie Phillips

I've always used a mallet putter on tour. I get too much face rotation with a blade.
‐‐ Lexi Thompson

I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld

I've always used music for my acting, and I do have a kind of a very personal play list that I create.
‐‐ Jonathan Tucker

I've always used my hair for whatever it is needed for. I had it an inch long and jet black for a Pinter play I did. Changes you completely.
‐‐ Joanna Lumley

I've always used my own personal emotions and things that I've gone through in my life to build a character. The work that I do before a film feels almost like therapy, between me and whoever I'm playing.
‐‐ Kirsten Dunst

I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.
‐‐ Jonathan Galassi

I've always valued and encouraged teamwork, and that collaborative spirit of we versus I is core to Intuit's success. Innovation has been part of Intuit's DNA for nearly 30 years.
‐‐ Brad D. Smith

I've always valued the input of the people I love. So in the past, whenever I'd make a decision - what to wear to an event, whether to pursue a job opportunity - I'd consult those closest to me, like my mother, husband, or manager.
‐‐ Alicia Keys

I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible.
‐‐ Claire Danes

I've always viewed Mitt Romney as a very conservative person.
‐‐ Jason Chaffetz

I've always viewed myself as a behind-the-scenes person rather than in front of the camera.
‐‐ Tommy Mottola

I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.
‐‐ Camilla Lackberg

I've always viewed politics the following way: if you do a good job at the job you're doing, you'll have opportunities to do other things in the future. Maybe things you never envisioned.
‐‐ Marco Rubio