I don't like it when people are trying too hard. That goes for clothes, for acting, for everything. It's just not good when it seems like you're making too much of an effort.
He kept his ear so close to the ground that it was full of grasshoppers.
Referring to President William McKinley who was extremely sensitive to public opinion:
My mom was extremely supportive of me, but it could err on the side of... I mean, there's supportive, and then there's just full-on over-hovering.
The egotist is next door to a fanatic.
Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.
Even I admit I may have peaked too soon.
I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.
I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people
The FBI would rather be a little heavy handed than empty handed.
I tend to get over-excited and very, very loud. I rein myself in when people flinch and dogs start howling.
Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.
I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
I was always kind of a loudmouth to the point where I annoyed my teachers and friends.