#tried

My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director. ↗

— David Mamet

#actor #became #correct #director #good

I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind. ↗

— George C. Marshall

#because #before #careful #casualties #casualty

For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I've found it turns out to be a waste of time. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

#cut #film #found #i #me

I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#bad #been #brando #even #good

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it. ↗

— Herman Melville

#choose #enduring #ever #flea #great

There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#bad #devil #everybody #family #good

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#failures #faults #good #good pair #having

I've constantly tried new things, even as a child, and have always been obsessed with pink. Now I'm just a little more ladylike and fearless. You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating. ↗

— Nicki Minaj

#always #art #become #been #child

What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting. ↗

— Liza Minnelli

#hard #i #i tried #interesting #kind

Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity. ↗

— Ricardo Montalban

#because #dignity #i #nationalities #other