#tryin

I'm trying to learn, as I'm in my 40s, to embrace what I've been able to achieve and be proud of it. And I know there's roles that I will want to play before I die, but I'm still just taking one day at a time. ↗

— Kristin Chenoweth

#achieve #been #before #day #die

Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong. ↗

— Hayden Christensen

#because #being #celebrity #constantly #great

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor. ↗

— Montgomery Clift

#i #just #look #movie #movie star

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#after #curious #going #keyhole #know

Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it. ↗

— Kate Clinton

#anything #coming #humor #lesbian #more

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#death #here #how #i #i am

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#beat #begins #fails #finish #first

I was always trying to find the balance between trying my best and being an incredible parent. I literally realized that it was chaos - but it was happy chaos. ↗

— Soleil Moon Frye

#balance #being #best #between #chaos

In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season. ↗

— Lou Gehrig

#bad #bad one #beginning #down #finally

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city. ↗

— Frank Gehry

#city #each #happen #i #i think