45 quotes found
“Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood are the ones created by Steven Spielberg - 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'E.T.,' for ...”
“When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.”
“If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.”
“I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.”
“Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up?”
“I was a little troublemaker. Always trying to get in trouble, always mischief, like throwing rocks at cars when I was younger, all that kind of stuff.”
“I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but thr...”
“Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.”
“I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.”
“Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites it is simply flowing between them. ”
“Trying to make something as tricky as 'Room' really believable is extremely hard, and it largely rests with that relationship between the actors and the director, and the director and the crew.”
“Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.”
“It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better tha...”
“Men do not fail they give up trying. ”
“Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.”
“We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.”
“Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.”
“I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. At...”
“I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties.”
“Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.”
