#i tried

I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it... for about ten years. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#being #big #comes #confident #down

I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956. ↗

— Bruce Dern

#i tried #make #olympics #team #tried

If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away. ↗

— Larry David

#flirt #i #i tried #know #run

But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy. ↗

— Jhonen Vasquez

#boy #comic #comics #could #create

I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter. ↗

— Ted Demme

#aware #being #between #daughter #father

When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said. ↗

— William Devane

#always #being #bring #go #greg

It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#good #good actors #i #i tried #impression

I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#broad #clarify #conceptual #fit #i

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. ↗

— Toby Young

#aptitude #being #catering #even #had

When I was 21 I stopped and got married. I tried for a while to be the perfect wife, society this, society that but it wasn't working, so after about a year I went back to work. ↗

— Pia Zadora

#after #back #got #i #i tried