Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.

They're trying to beat out this movie, the Ring, which is a similar idea. Our movie is about a website you visit and die in three days. Their movie is about a videotape you watch - and die in three days.

All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.

I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor.

We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.

The idea of running around and screaming about Jason Voorhees trying to kill you was fun.

The idea of taking off my shoes and trying on all these clothes is so exhausting, I just leave.

I began acting at age eight, but if you don't stay on your game then people pass on you. Being on a show, it's a little easy to get comfortable, so I'm trying to get back on it. I'm taking some acting classes and watching movies, and I'm just trying to stay up with other actors.

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about.

A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.