Quotes: Trying

Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.

I may not be perfect, but I’m trying.

Of course I’m a publicity hound. Aren’t all crusaders? How can you accomplish anything unless people know what you are trying to do?

My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort.

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?

I like to live righteous. And I just want everyone to know I’m not trying to get out of anything.

We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.

I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I’m so lazy, all that money created a block. I was flying around the world, staying at fancy hotels, having fun and trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible, so I could get on with some more work.

Don’t ever give up. You gotta keep trying, and never give up.

During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and “style” as much as I could, since I knew that I’d calcify as I got older.