- Cake
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trying Quotes
Sometimes the effort matters more than the outcome.
This collection finds humor and sincerity in the act of trying - baseball becoming enjoyable again only after quitting the attempt to play it, and a small reading ritual used to get through a demanding project. Related reading in I Am Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always trying to show versatility. I'm juggling, and I'm flipping fire, and I'm chewing gum and rhyming at the same time... on a unicycle, while playing the drums.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well.
- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a rapper trying to be an actor.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began to do this thing I do of giving myself a class every day, and trying to experiment and push further. I don't mean to say I knew everything, because I didn't, but I would do what I knew and then push beyond that and see what else I could find.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm trying to find my way into a character, the voice and physicality are the first two things I do.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote a pilot for myself. It's about a Latina actress trying to make it in Hollywood. It's pretty funny.
- Make It Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not retained... because the salaries and the compensation aren't there to make it happen.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just go and keep auditioning and keep trying and keep believing things will turn around, and it always does.
- Nov 07, 2020
Trying to show people something they haven't really seen before can get a lot of push-back.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
- Curl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I curl up inside and freeze when I have to act. I much prefer sitting on the sidelines and trying to get the best out of other people.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The French elites' strategy of trying to defeat the Le Pens by aping their rhetoric, stealing their policies, and pandering to their voters has been a political and moral failure.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020