What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.
Joseph Barbera

Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.
Joseph Barbera

I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.
Alan Jackson

I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting areas.
Dan Rather

Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.
Kevin Spacey

Whenever I was on the pitch, I always tried to win.
Michel Patini

I've never tried to be something I'm not.
Vincent D'Onofrio

I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.
Dan Rather

Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
Wyclef Jean

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
Francois Rabelais

I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right.
Tracy Chapman

We were sharecroppers - we were a little bit of everything. We farmed and tried to make something.
Buck Owens

If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
Harold Pinter

And I always tried to be not a star. To be someone who people like to talk to.
Kurt Masur

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
Alex Haley

I never tried to kill myself or anything.
Ronnie Spector

I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.
Frank Robinson

I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.
Jared Diamond

I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have.
Martina McBride

My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.
Bela Lugosi