Trying Too Hard Quotes

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.

Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.

If you start out saying you want to be cool, you won't be cool.

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

Whenever I've tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It's something I do automatically - I've learnt to immediately adapt.

What is the definition of cool? Michael Jackson made “Heal the World.” He could do that because he was golden. He was himself. He didn't have to try to be cool. Think about a lot of your favorite bands or groups. Would they make a song called “Heal the World”? No, because they are too concerned about their leather jackets. Ironically, they are probably wearing leather jackets because of Michael Jackson.

Some people say the things I do are annoying because I'm intentionally trying too hard to be relatable, but I'm really not.

They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

I don't like guys who overdress. And I don't like guys who try too hard.

Awkwardness gives me great comfort. I've never been cool, but I've felt cool. I've been in the cool place, but I wasn't really cool - I was trying to pass for hip or cool. It's the awkwardness that's nice.

If you think someone's trying too hard, that's the worst thing they can do. To me, it's just desperate, never funny and never witty. It's kind of really old hat because just being shocking isn't enough. It has to change how you think about something. It has to startle you. It has to make you look at something and reconsider whether you're right. That's the whole point.

My eagerness to please sometimes gets the better of me.

I can take too big a step. I can try to be too cool, and people won't accept that.

In the early days you have a tendency to intellectualize, but you're really just trying to sound smart and score with the chicks.

If you've gotta think about being cool, you ain't cool.

When I try to be funny, it always makes me more nervous that I'm trying too hard, and then my brain that already thinks too much jumps into hyper drive, and I light-speed start talking 'Star Trek' to someone who's talking 'Star Wars.' Anyway, it doesn't work out usually when I 'try' to be funny.

If I just wear something because I feel like myself and I'm comfortable, that's okay - and that goes even for more edgy things. But if I try too much, or if I even try, it doesn't work. It doesn't feel natural, and I feel very uncomfortable.

The more you try to look sexy, the lamer it is, so you just have to commit to the comedy.

The one who tried too hard, the outsider, the oddball. Yeah, that was me.

You can feel yourself trying too hard, doing too much. Nobody wants to watch somebody when they're needy, and actors are in the unfortunate position of needing to be cast and needing to be liked.

Too many actors are trying to be cool: they're trying to do it with their hair, trying to do it with the color, trying to do it with clothes, or some bullshit attitude you're either cool or you're not, that is my theory. If you have to try, it is too late.

If a show ever tries to be cool, then it's going to be doing something wrong.

I hate people who act too cool for school. Just own up to it, dude.

Got nothing to do with trying. You like someone, or you don't. If you're 'trying', you don't.