I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don’t make it, at least you can say you tried.

I have always tried to stay current.

I am sorry for when I do it hopefully one day you’ll realise why. Please do not be angry; just understand that today I tried.

For the most part, I’ve been influenced by black singers and singers I couldn’t sound like. Whenever I tried to do a dark note or a bent note, I would just sound like Hootie And...

I’ve never tried to be something I’m not.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

I think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back.

I’ve never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style.

It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage.

I tried a little of everything when I was little. I tried karate, I tried ballet, I tried piano lessons and singing lessons… I was a pretty normal kid, for the most part.

That’s why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn’t want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when...

I’ve always tried to be fair to my subjects. That’s easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

For years, I’ve written narrators who aren’t gender-identified. When I do autobiographical stuff, that’s different, obviously. But I’ve always tried to keep my songs as potentially not a man’s thing.

I’ve always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn’t so concerned with impressing anybody.

I have always tried to make profitable films because people’s offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.

It is a fantastic initiative by the ministry to develop Aakash Tablet, a mobile device that can be utilised by students anywhere. It was successfully tried out. The second and third versions have come out...

If I had tried the Olympics any younger, I wouldn’t have been as prepared as I am right now. But there are definitely a ton of juniors out there, all around the world and in...

I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I’m kind of clumsy.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

I’ve always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.

I’ve always tried to vote my conscience.

If you look at Earwolf, we’ve tried to have a really diverse stable of hosts. Even my show can get a little ‘dudey’ sometimes.

I tried ice-skating and wasn’t very good at it.

I’m a big fan of people like Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth. I think they’re so chic and have this cool edgy-rocker feel. For about a month I tried to do that, but what I...

Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.

And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

I always tried to hide the fact that I was an athlete. I just wanted to be normal.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

I always tried to live my life as though nothing changed. People would say, ‘You can have a Rolls-Royce’. I’d say to that, ‘What do I want with a Rolls-Royce when I can have a...

Before I got divorced, I was personally unfamiliar with trial, or at least trial of serious, heart-wrenching proportions. I figured that life went smoothly if you tried hard, and if you messed up, or things...

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women’s struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy.

I am so tired – so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place; it is like the circle...

I tried to do the commercial thing. But I don’t want to keep shoving Twinkies down everyone’s throat. People are hungry for something of more substance.

I always thought there were some people who were just destined to be disengaged in their jobs because that was their personality, and no matter how hard managers tried, there wasn’t much they could do...

I didn’t try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.

I couldn’t sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.

‘The Sound of Music’ did more damage to the industry than any other picture. Everyone tried to copy it. We were the biggest offenders.

I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.

The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.

I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.

Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they’re going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me...

They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.

I’ve always tried to do pictures that don’t date.