Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Frey

The best stories are universal stories that have been told for as long as humanity has existed it's just figuring out new ways to do it, with language, with structure. And so I'm always trying to do that.

Jim Carrey

I'm always trying to complicate things. For some reason I'll go, "Well, maybe I can get that in," and stuff like that. I always make it really hard for myself.

George Stroumboulopoulos

I never wanted to live a relatable life, I wanted to live an aspirational life. I didn't want to see people who had my life on TV. I wanted to see other lives, right, and so I was always trying to get as much of that stuff as I could.

Jim Gaffigan

If camping is so great, why are the bugs always trying to get in your house?

Michael Caine

I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.

Morgan Freeman

I'm always trying new things and learning new things. If there isn't anything more you can learn - go off and die.

Philip Larkin

I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.

Lisa Kudrow

I'm the youngest in my family, and everyone is very funny, and I was always trying to keep up with them. I just loved making people laugh

James Rosenquist

I'm always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.

Nicole Krauss

The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory - and I am always trying to go to the more awkward place, the more difficult place - the more frightening it is, because I have no plan.

Heidi Julavits

I wouldn't be myself if I weren't always trying to be someone else. I only have so much time on this earth and I want to be as many people as possible.

Marianne Moore

The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.

Manny Montana

A lot of people that are always trying to be funny and "on" and performing are just hiding. It's just a cover for what they really are and how they really feel.

Matt Smith

Lyrical content is very important to me. I'm always trying to make sure the lyrics and music complement each other perfectly.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

Pope Francis

We must always walk in the presence of the Lord, in the light of the Lord, always trying to live in an irreprehensible way.

Steven Holl

You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits,

Tatiana Maslany

As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there, you have to produce that yourself.

Scott Pelley

I'm always trying to get those interviews that are impossible to get, because they are the ones that are most interesting to the audience.

Scott McCloud

All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.

Robert Anthony

Are you always trying to get somewhere other than where you are so that you can finally be happy? The truth is that all unhappiness is caused by denial of the present.

Linda Hunt

I was always trying to make up for my size, to compensate. So to get people to take you seriously, you have to come at things with a great deal of strength. You have to emphasize that the way you are is unusual. That you don't come along every day.

K. D. Lang

I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal.

T Bone Burnett

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.

Ryan Lochte

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.

Richard Pryor

He's just always positive. He's always smiling and he's always trying.

Lady Gaga

I'm always trying to create something that the fans won't expect.

Tom Robbins

You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.

Phil Silvers

Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra.

Tibor Kalman

I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.

Steve Carell

I tend not to be someone who's on all the time, or is always trying to make other people laugh.

Shawn Mendes

Live like your always trying to impress someone

Ryan Cabrera

I'll do anything for $50. People are always trying to get me to do dumb things. The possibilities are endless.