Try Quotes

If you try and fail, make another effort, and still another until you succeed.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

I don’t try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.

Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try.

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

Unless you’re playing a real character based on a real person, if someone else has done it before, you’re probably better off not watching it as an actor. Otherwise you end up trying to copy someone else.

Every day, I’m trying to push the boundaries creatively, and sometimes it does push the boundary too far, and that’s what I had to learn.

I don’t have a strict diet; I keep it simple. I try to eat fish, meat, veg and carbs – potatoes and rice – but I’ll try and pack it in because as I’m burning so much energy. I have to see food as an energy source.

I try not to be too hard on myself. My husband reminds me that life is a marathon, not a sprint.