Quotes About Challenges

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail.

Later on when it became a routine it was not as exciting I'll admit that. The first three years were wonderful, the rest were just money making and having fun.

I look back on my life and it's 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It's no way to live.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money.

Failure is not tied to money; it is a mindset. Failure is when we accept the lot we are given.

I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.

My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist!

Money definitely changes your lifestyle. But the things you go through makes who you are. Your experiences, they travel with you.

It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that.

It's a fact: stock investors sometimes lose money on their way to wealth. Get over it.

Let's not only provide a jumpstart to the economy and immediately or save 3 million jobs, but let's also put a down payment on some of the structural problems that we have in our economy.

It would be great if firefighters across the country had the guarantee that they would be making enough money to support their family right from the get-go, but that's not the case.

I used to love fast food because I had no money, and I was a struggling actor.

People think if you have money, it'll fix the problems, but it creates different ones.

When I was young, it was easier to make films. It wasn't as expensive, there was more support. I found that I couldn't get the money to make films.

The American films just have so much more publicity and so much more money behind them that it's so hard to compete.

It's pretty easy to lose money on tour - most bands do on their first couple of tours. We're more established, but I think it was just poorly booked. It was a mess from the get-go.

Friends are like money, easier made than kept.

To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.

There's not a long career span because you can't really make money doing drag for very long the way the system was set up for so many years.

Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine.

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.