I tried spinning around in a chair to impress a girl.
Have you ever tried sugar or PCP?
I always tried to hide the fact that I was an athlete. I just wanted to be normal.
I have tried my entire life to do what I can to support children and families.
I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, 'No, I'll go to school and then I'll be an English teacher; that'll be fun. ' But I was horrible as a teacher. As hard as I tried, I just couldn't inspire those kids to take an interest in Milton and Shakespeare and Donne.
I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.
I've been on planes flying through thunder storms when the pilot says, 'ladies and gentlemen, we tried to fly around it but we can't so it's going to be rough'. And when a pilot says it's going to be bad, it's going to be rough. And you say to youself, boy, I could have got the train.
I don't get no respect. I called Suicide Prevention. They tried to talk me into it.
Man tried to imitate God by drawing; then we invented the photo.
Nowadays, the game is all bugged out, Phony, like back when Hammer tried to come thugged out.
I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be.
I’ve tried being other people and myself suits me the best.
My daddy tried to get me up to speak for the 17 years that I worked behind the scenes, but I never had the desire. Naturally, I was nervous and kind of shy. I just didn't want to do it.
You have no idea how much it bothers me to know that I was the man she meant to kill tonight and now I have to protect her. ” – Ren “Yeah, well, she tried to kill me, too, and I got over it. ” – Sundown
I knew I just loved comedy, and I think it was my parents who initially brought up the notion of me trying to do stand-up. I think I actually tried writing jokes just at home, just kind of sitting around. But it seemed like a very real way to step into the world of comedy. I felt I could do it, so why not?
Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
At this point, I feel like I can allow myself to be goofy and take more risks, and even if I do fall on my face, I know it's not the end of the world and at least I tried to do something different.
One of the high spots of the decade for me was offering the bill which culminated in the tax act of 1986, which brought rates down. That was the most difficult problem to solve: how to make the tax system of the United States more fair. We tried to make it simpler, but we failed on that one.
I grew up in the church, and so I feel that God gave me certain things to do, and I'm lucky enough to kind of have figured those things out. I just don't want to die not having tried to help somebody else with what I know.
Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?