Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Sarsgaard

If no one on the movie has met me before or knows me, that's the easiest. I don't do a lot of things that don't relate to being the person. I will try to keep it going for my other actors. I want them to do the least amount of pretending as possible.

Peter Jackson

I adore physical miniatures and try to use them as much as I can and have a bit of a fetish about that.

Pete Rose

The thing I would like most to leave behind is to be remembered for trying hard.

Pete Rose

If you have someone equal in ability to me I will beat him every time because I will try harder.

Pierre Trudeau

Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.

Phyllis George

What's the problem with 'never?' It keeps you from trying. It ensures that you will fail. End of story.

Rachel Field

no matter how hard and faithfully we may try we can never compensate another for some lack in his or her life.

Rachel Dratch

If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.

Puff Daddy

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

Queen Latifah

If you try to follow everyone else's mold, you'll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.

Pixie Lott

I don't try to pretend to be what I'm not. I don't feel I need to do anything outrageous.

Placido Domingo

Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer.

Haruki Murakami

I wondered if she was trying to convey something to me, something she could not put into words - something prior to words that she could not grasp within herself and which therefore had no hope of ever turning into words.

Hans Zimmer

I try to communicate with the musicians the way I communicate with the filmmakers. I'm not going to say to them, can we be a little bit more presto here. Hang on, this should be a bit more exciting, or I try to explain the scene to them, or I try to explain the context the notes are supposed to live in.

Hans Zimmer

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler..

Graydon Carter

I try to look after the really small things and the really big things, and delegate the stuff in between,

Greg Behrendt

When we're picking someone who we want to spend a lot of time with, even perhaps for the rest of our lives, we generally try to pick someone who likes to do the things we like to do.

Gordon Moore

If everything you try works, you aren't trying hard enough.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

John McAfee

You can't stop things like Bitcoin. [...]. It's like trying to stop gunpowder.

John Mayer

I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.

John Mayer

The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when sad tries to bite its lip and not cry, and smile and say, "No I'm happy for you"? Thats when it's really sad...

John Maynard Keynes

I am trying to re-shape and improve my central position.

John Lone

The point I'm trying to make is, I'm really quite neutral. I have not been conditioned.

John Locke

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

John Legend

I care more about the fans in general, just making sure they enjoy what I do. And then also I kind of had this kind of ideal of the kind of music I want to make and what I'm aiming for kind of creatively and just the quality of the music that I'm trying to make. And I have that in my head.

John Legend

I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.

John Legend

I'm pretty adventurous with food, so I'm not afraid to try anything.

John Leguizamo

[Brad Furman] wants to try stuff, he's willing to try stuff. And he wants electricity on the camera. And that's what I want, I want electricity whenever I'm performing.

John Lennon

We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear.

John Baldessari

I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting.

John Banville

Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.

Jodie Whittaker

I try to be like a sponge when I'm around other actors, picking things up about the way they work and how they do things.