“I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.” WantTryingDonePlayFilmMorningFiveBedExciting Author:Kristin Scott Thomas
“I sometimes have to think about that because if I think about these five things and think of them all, I'll drop the balls, so I really have to prioritize and use every free second I have and maximize it. I wake up early, try to get sleep, but try to write for at least three hours every day. A really nice day for me is writing ten hours. I love that. Hasn't been a lot of that recently, but every free second I have I'm doing that.” IfsThinkingWritingTryingSometimesUseThreeHoursSleepFiveNiceTenBallsWake UpReally NiceUp EarlyPrioritizeNice Day Author:James Ponsoldt
“I'm not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times. People was trying to kill me.” PeopleTryingHappensFiveShotsRapRapperKill MeGangsta Author:Tupac Shakur
“Most of the time after the US Open, it is kind of like you are trying to finish strong. But to do it five years and maybe six is something that has never been done before, so it is a huge challenge.” TryingYearsKindDoneStrongChallengesFiveHugeLike YouSixFive YearsFinish Strong Author:Pete Sampras
“Certain roles, I just won't invest in. I'll go in and audition, but I might not spend five hours trying to figure out what the character is really about or go so deep into it. I might just learn the lines and go in and try my best because I know it's not safe for me to love the character or to fall in love with the idea of the role.” KnowsTryingIdeasCharacterMightCertainFallHoursLinesRolesFiveFiguresSafeFalling In LoveAuditions Author:Madeline Zima
“At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.” TryingYearsMadeEndsEnoughSchoolBusinessActingFiveDramaEightRestaurantsFive YearsGasStationsContractsSmall BusinessGas Stations Author:Hugh Jackman
“I call it 'new forms'. When you're starting out, they ask you to do four or five minute sets, but once you're a headliner, you do like 90 minutes. I try to think of different things to divvy up the show, like doing drawings, playing music... I gotta carry the show, that's the problem.” ThinkingTryingDifferentShowsProblemFormAsksFiveFourMinutesStartingDrawingDifferent ThingsFive MinutesPlaying MusicStarting Out Author:Demetri Martin
“If you spend five minutes with me or watch me try to balance my checkbook, you can only imagine the disaster I would make of anyone's legal issues.” IfsTryingWatchesIssuesFiveImagineMinutesBalanceDisasterFive MinutesWatch Me Author:Greg Giraldo
“We do want the freedom to move scenes from episode to episode to episode. And we do want the freedom to move writing from episode to episode to episode, because as it starts to come in and as you start to look at it as a five-hour movie just like you would in a two-hour movie, move a scene from the first 30 minutes to maybe 50 minutes in. In a streaming series, you would now be in a different episode. It's so complicated, and we're so still using the rules that were built for episodic television that we're really trying to figure it out.” WantWritingTryingFirstsLooksStillsTwoDifferentMovingHoursFiveMinutesFiguresTelevisionLike YouSceneBuiltSeriesComplicatedEpisodesStreaming Author:Jill Soloway
“I have been trying to heal my body from surgeries over the last five years - from my broken leg, tonsillectomy, wisdom teeth, eagle syndrome and hip. Needless to say, it's been a very painful process.” TryingYearsHas BeensBodyLastsProcessFiveBrokenPainfulLegsHealTeethHipsFive YearsSurgeryEaglesSyndromesLast Five YearsBroken Leg Author:John Michael Montgomery
“I haven´t written on piano since It Bites. You can tell my songs that I´ve written on piano with It Bites cause they all go like "wrooash", like Old Man And The Angel and Calling All The Heroes and songs like that. It all tends to happen very quickly, I get two thirds of the song within five minutes and then spend rest of the time trying to ruin it in my head, and then I go back to where I was from the beginning.” MenTryingTwoHappensSongCausesFiveWrittenMinutesHavensHeroCallingAngelThirdsRuinsPianoOld ManBitesFive Minutes Author:Francis Dunnery
“Since I left Chicago, I'm a lone wolf. I put on the record player and sit and try to play on the guitar. I've got five guitars here and can't play them, but I'm always whompin' around.” TryingPlayLeftRecordsFivePlayerGuitarChicagoLoneLone WolfRecord Players Author:James Cotton
“Instead of just purchasing an ad campaign, target test and measure. Give an ad a small try. If the response is enough to pay for the ad, make it larger. With a franchise, ask the most successful franchisees what they did. Ask the bottom five guys what they did and avoid it.” IfsGivingTryingEnoughGuyAsksPaySuccessfulFiveTestsResponseBottomCampaignsTargetAdsPurchasing Author:Dave Ramsey
“I like to think I'm healthy. I exercise a lot. I have this great dog, and I walk her about five days a week. I dance, I surf. I eat mostly vegan, try to get enough sleep. For me, that's really critical.” ThinkingTryingEnoughSleepWalksFiveWeekDogExerciseHealthyCriticalVeganSurfGreat DogEnough Sleep Author:Jorja Fox
“I had no idea what effect something blockbustering would have. To me, it was just a job that I was trying to do the best I could. We had shot the first five shows before it went on the air. Then, it was this firecracker hit, and people were recognizing me, so it was just nuts. It was overwhelming, insane, wonderful and scary all at the same time. It's really peculiar that people see you on television and then think they have a personal relationship with you. So, they want to touch you, and grab you, and sit down and have lunch with you. It's strange, and you never get used to that.” PeopleThinkingWantTryingFirstsIdeasShowsJobsUsedFiveWonderfulAirEffectsTelevisionStrangeShotsDown AndScaryInsaneNo IdeaLunchOverwhelmingPeculiarNutsRecognizingDo The BestPersonal RelationshipsFirecracker Author:Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
“I left Stone Sour in '97 because, by that time, we'd been together for about five years and I was kind of getting to the point where I wanted to do something different. I loved the music that we did and I loved the guys that I was with, but I was 24 and just felt like I needed to go and try something different so I didn't get stuck where I was, you know, just doing the same thing. And, coincidentally, that's when Slipknot came and asked me to join. I'd never done anything like Slipknot up until then, so I was like, "Okay, we'll try this and we'll see what happens." And it worked out.” KnowsTryingYearsKindDifferentDoneHappensWantedTogetherGuyLeftFeltFiveNeededStonesOkayStuckFive YearsSourStone Sour Author:Corey Taylor
“So I always liked to sing, and apparently when I was about four or five I also started to be attracted to pianos and musical instruments. Whenever we went to a friend's house, I vaguely recall climbing up on the piano, plunking on it, and trying to figure it out. So my parents figured I was interested and asked me if I wanted to take piano lessons. I said sure.” IfsTryingSaidWantedHouseParentFiveFourFiguresLessonsInstrumentsMusicalPianoClimbingRecallsMusical InstrumentsPiano LessonClimbing Up Author:Vienna Teng
“I'm not trying to get five medals. I'm not trying to be Michael Phelps.” TryingFiveMedal Author:Lindsey Vonn