I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they're just trying to get nominated for an Oscar!
Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.
All of us gave it all we've got, overcame a whole lot just being on the show and learned a lot about ourselves. We're just normal people trying to do what we love and follow our dreams.
I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.
I think most of my life I have spent trying to gain normalcy, whatever that may be.
I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.
I don't take notes. I don't have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very writerly thing to do, but my mind doesn't work that way. I tend to get the idea for a novel in a big splash.
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
I'm pretty aggressive, and maybe obnoxious, about trying to get work.
Obama is not only obstructing budget reform; it's almost as if he is trying to make matters worse.
I have, oddly, two ski houses - trying to sell one.
I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?
I'm not trying to be new school and I'm not old school - I'm classic. There's a lot of new cars and there's a lot of old cars, but I'm just classic in doing what I do.
Oh, I think, watching Magic, him being one of my... I'm one of his biggest fans, and just trying to emulate what he did, going out on the playground, and also playing with older guys.
I am the face and ambassador of sambo. The organization I'm working is trying really hard to make sambo a sport on the Olympian level.
I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
I am not trying to model my career to be a one-hit wonder.
On one-on-one, I'm either trying to get the first down or trying to score.
This is the only country in the world where you can be criticised for trying too hard. That's a put-down in London.
I've been really trying to put people onto, like, my sound since I was, like, 17, 16.
