Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Lady Gaga

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

K. D. Lang

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

Naomi Campbell

I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.

Kordell Stewart

My focus is on always trying to treat the inevitable highs and lows of life with the same blissful, calm energy.

Pablo Picasso

What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you might call a painter's ideal... the kind that's always existed... No. They couldn't care less about that.

Scott Bakula

I try to get on stage whenever I can. I'm always trying to be involved in the theater, doing something on stage, whenever I have downtime. I'm always looking for it.

Michael Pitt

I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .

Scott Speedman

I went to the University of Toronto for a year, and I'm always trying to get across what university is really like.

Soleil Moon Frye

I was always trying to find the balance between trying my best and being an incredible parent. I literally realized that it was chaos - but it was happy chaos.

Skrillex

I'm always on tour, so I'm always trying new tracks out live before they're released. That's more necessity than anything, because I don't get a proper chance to sit in a studio and work on tracks like other producers do.

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.

Philip Larkin

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

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.

Matt Smith

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yvon Chouinard

Nature doesn't like empires. It doesn't like accumulation in one place, it doesn't like monoculture. It's always trying to make diverse species. It wants to spread everything out. And we're constantly trying to hold everything in.

Vivienne Westwood

What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.

Vivienne Westwood

I'm always attracted to people who interest me. They've got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They're interested in people.

Vivienne Westwood

I am always trying to find fabrics that are more friendly to the environment - working with Virgin Atlantic, they managed to research into this and find more eco fabrics.

Virginia Woolf

A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her.

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.

Ryan Cabrera

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

Tibor Kalman

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

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.