Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.
I come home from trying to pretend to know about astronomy and physics all day and turn on 'The Real Housewives'.
I don't know why we have to put things in boxes of superlatives. That isolates them. Life is fluid, and the minute you start trying to put a line around something, it will deceive you and go away.
For a radical feminist to try to change the church was like a black person trying to reform the Ku Klux Klan.
I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.
Do we need to tighten restrictions on people coming into the country? I think there's a good argument for that, but a kind of broad ban is a bad idea, and, of course, many American Muslims are great sources of information as we seek to look for domestic folks who might be engaged in trying to promote terrorist activities.
Aesthetes have it all over intellectuals in one very important respect: You'll rarely catch us hustling anyone off to the nearest guillotine. We're too busy trying to make the world more beautiful. Our hands are stained with ink and paint, not blood.
People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
I'm just trying to give the world something pure for a change. We'll see what happens.
With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.
I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.'
I'm trying to write about serious issues, about Iceland's journey into modernity, about the soul of Iceland - on how people react when they get too much money too quickly and how it affects our culture.
We're trying to find needles in the haystack, and the needles are going dark, and it's because of this phenomenon we can't track their movements.
'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.
It's really lonely trying to build something by yourself. It's good to have thought partners to bounce ideas off of.
Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.
I'm the one that everyone is trying to beat.
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.
Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
I'm always trying to improve, always trying to be at my top, trying to push the limit.
If I start trying to make a record for what I think could possibly get played on radio, I'm dead.
You know, I've been to some superstars' houses, and I've been really disgusted when I see their platinum discs hanging in the toilet. They're just there on the walls glaring at you when you're trying to be occupied with other things.
We are trying to push the envelope with a lot of characters in 'Brothers.' We are going out of the way and being honest to our roles.
When I'm arguing, I'm competing. I'm trying to win a game. And if that's what's called for, it's just a reaction.
What makes a poem is the discipline inherent in making a poem: trying to fit feelings in the requisite number of syllables and lines, disciplining one's feelings.
Sometimes I won't put a lot of make up on; I won't put foundation on. I'll just pop a bit of blusher on. I'm not obsessed with trying to look like a Victoria's Secret model - it's real life.
When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.
I thought it was a prank. There is no way six different major labels trying to reach out to me. But it was actually happening.
If you labor heavily upon a work of art, then part of what you are saying is, 'This is a heavy work of art.' If you happen to be trying to say something about lightness, then the art should be light as well.
I love being around kids. I couldn't figure out why all these 70-year-olds wanted to hang out with me when I was 27. Now I understand, and I'm trying to steal their energy from them like they stole from me at the time.
You know, I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of trying to answer the daunting question of 'What's your passion?' it's better simply to watch what you do when you've got time of your own and nobody's looking.
I had my first screen-acting class in March 2015, and I was, like, 18, turning 19, so it's a risk trying to get into acting when you're that 'old,' in inverted commas.
I don't like that putdown: that when you're trying to achieve, you're trying to be white. That makes me mad.
You can't be emotional if you're trying to be a businesswoman.
Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity.
