As a director, I like trying to unlock the subtext of the scene and try to put the camera in a place that helps that.

Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.

My thoughts seem thick, ketchup stuck in a bottle. Like trying to feel someone's face while wearing goosedown mittens.

I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.

Try to bring me down, but you will never succeed because I'm always moving upward. Maybe not before, but now ... I am.

Are we gonna just make movies about trying to get laid over and over again or focus on something that's more relevant?

Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.

I'm going to try to take a loving look at the situation and do what God gave me the ability to do, and He'll bless it.

We all have that inner voice that is wise, even if we don't always follow it. It's that voice I'm trying to listen to.

I think it's very hard for a woman to be treated as a person and not just as a woman who tries to become a politician.

Everywhere man is in disguise! Who is who is unknown! Try to enter the mask and find out who the man inside really is!

If you try to copy something exactly you won't get it correct, because you don't share the same tradition and context.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself.

I joke that I spent 38 years scouring the globe, going to war zones, trying to find the person with my exact birthday.

I try to meditate every day for at least 5 minutes. I put my phone on silent, sit in quiet and try and find my center.

I'm the guy that's trying to break up that monopoly to introduce free enterprise and competition to the energy sector.

I'm just trying to get the best sound and have it be consistent and make sense with what I'm going through in my life.

I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule and someday I'll try to get around to it.

You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.

As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.

They all have always loved you, Will Herondale, for you cannot hide what is good about yourself, however hard you try.

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a bar of soap.

The weight is just a tool. Do you focus on the hammer or the nail? You better focus on the thing you're trying to hit.

I try to do yoga when I can to make sure that I'm flexible and that I'm not going to tear any muscle or pull anything.

When I first moved to L.A. as a dancer, all I wanted to do was dance. I never even considered trying to act or direct.

When you have a clear idea of what your character is trying to accomplish, it makes it a lot easier to riff on things.

Executives should blog if they have a vision they are trying to communicate, or if they are very visible in the media.

Before I could read, I remember trying to piece together the stories from the images. It was a very primal experience.

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.

I know that this is the internet, and we're all anonymous and all that, but really. It doesn't hurt to try to be nice.

It's tricky when I'm constantly traveling and adjusting to new time zones and trying to also keep up with my workouts.

I go out of my way to try not to be too annoying... my biggest goal in life is to not be annoying about being a bride.

I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.

The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young.

Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so bold.

If you really want a prize, or if you really want applause, you should try to write as many books as humanly possible.

Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.

I therefore think that I was right in trying from the outset of the Olympic revival to rekindle a religious awareness.

When you stop trying to find the right man and start becoming the right woman, the right man will find his way to you.

The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.

The goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly.

I try not to be preachy, I just try to deal with people on their own level, not to try to talk down or up to a person.

I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read.

The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.

I request you to try to be warm-hearted. I ask this of you because these mental attitudes actually bring us happiness.

I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.

When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.

Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.

You cannot believe how hard it is to try and raise money for a film. I did it for six years and it was such a failure.

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