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

I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I’ve tried to keep the corruption minimal.

I think I have always tried to connect my comedy to my art.

I tried to film ‘Leaves of Grass’ in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana.

A person who never made a mistake, never tried anything new

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.

I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts.

The dead do not needaspirin orsorrow,I suppose.but they might needrain.not shoesbut a place towalk.not cigarettes,they tell us,but a place to burn.or we’re told:space and a place to flymight be thesame.the dead don’t need me.nor do...

If I wasn’t an actor, I probably would’ve tried to get a job with the Braves.

I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

I’m not keen on cars and motorbikes. I tried to be a biker, but it wasn’t me – I bought a Harley-Davidson and dumped it.

Journaling is something that I’ve always tried to get into.

Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn’t.

My search for ways to improve my touch has never ended. We players tried a lot of different things and compared notes. Little fads would set in.

I tried to go to Kosovo to establish a statue to commemorate those who died during the wars, and to discuss moving on, so we could move into a new era. But I was banned...

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

We actually tried to invest in Twitter in April 2007, right when it launched. At the time, the company was wary of having a classic, tier-one traditional venture firm involved.

I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced...

I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants.

I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.

I’ve tried writing. Two days later I’d go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

I tried my best to ensure I kept the respect for the middleweight division in the tradition of Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake La Motta.

We always admire the other person more after we’ve tried to do his job.

I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.

I’ve never sat down and tried to write something for some occasion. You just write the tune and stay totally wide open to everything. It’ll find the person or persons who are supposed to do...

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

‘XIII’ is a spy show. I think the comic book is a little too similar to ‘The Bourne Identity.’ I tried to take it away from that. I believe there was, many years ago, before...

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.