Tried Quotes
4144 Tried quotes by 2854 unique authors
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The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.
— Sun Ra
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I tried to take every little thing and use it as an advantage. People were asking me how it felt to be in the UFC,…
— Chris Weidman
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You know what I always say about basketball whenever anybody tried to tell me the Knicks are gonna be good: They're old. Old people don't…
— Charles Barkley
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So much about living life, to me, is about humility and gratitude. And I've tried very hard to have those qualities and be that person…
— Katherine Heigl
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I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my…
— Amy Adams
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I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.
— Natalie Portman
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I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner…
— Marc Maron
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Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.
— Sean Penn
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I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to…
— Penelope Cruz
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It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.
— Julianna Margulies
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I totally heard by chance that they were doing the casting for a James Bond movie, and that one of the auditions was taking place…
— Berenice Marlohe
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The one who tried too hard, the outsider, the oddball. Yeah, that was me.
— Idina Menzel
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I have no regrets, except perhaps one: I should have tried harder to be a better actor.
— Joel McCrea
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I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be…
— Wesley Snipes
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The Vatican has tried to condemn 'The Magdalene Sisters' as a pack of lies and that I've made it all up - I wish I…
— Peter Mullan
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Being the father of girls is a kind of illness, in its own way - since any guy who has tried to live in a…
— Steve Schirripa
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I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find…
— Michael Gambon
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Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all.
— Robert Crumb
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I really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me.
— Jason Patric
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I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out,…
— Brigitte Bardot
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I’ve lived every day to the fullest, and I’ve had a marvelous time. I’ve tried to be nice to the people I care about, and…
— Oscar de la Renta
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I didn't know what to do. How do you tell an eight-year-old boy his mother's going to die? I tried. In my own stumbling way…
— James Dean
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My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a cartoon or something.…
— Atticus Shaffer
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I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.
— David Alan Grier
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In high school, I tried very hard to make everybody like me, which resulted in me being extremely unhappy and in a lot of pain.…
— Zoey Deutch
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