Quotes About Hardship

The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.

As someone of Korean descent, I am certain my road was a bit hard. I have to say anyone who's an aspiring actor has a difficult road regardless of race.

My career, definitely, the early years were a little scattershot, in terms of - it was a little regional theater, it was a lot of voiceovers, it was a lot of random day jobs. I mean, it was hard. It was hard to scrap around, and once 'Hairspray' happened, then it all kind of clicked into place.

Women are hit especially hard in regions of ongoing conflict. Before, during, and after conflict, women bear the brunt of the consequences of war. They are left as the providers and guardians, responsible for rebuilding their country one family at a time.

I have real good parents. They poor. They have regular, poor jobs and what not. They real good people and what not; I was just raised in a bad society.

We're talking about growing up in regular families, dreaming about better things, instead of popping bottles in the club and spending a lot of money that you don't have while living in your mother's basement.

I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.

We shouldn't romanticize rejection. There's nothing romantic about rejection. It's horrible.

I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.

I'm glad to have grown up in the countryside and played, and had to use my imagination rather than a TV and had to learn to act the hard way, to have dealt with the rejection. It's a life as well as a job, at the end the day, we all have to work for a living, but we have to have a life as well.

When guys talk about going to the league in college, they're thinking about flash and bling. But my first taste of the NFL was a relatively small non-guaranteed contract, a crappy room at an extended stay hotel and a sense of panic every time my phone rang because it might be the cut guy.

My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.

I was crazy poor, but I was learning and putting myself out there and getting hired to do whatever gig I could and auditioning.

There is no hit formula to make it big in Bollywood.

And no, having the hits is just more work.

We found ourselves in a hole that I didn't dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole.

The hole I've dug for myself is very big.

I never had holidays when I was a kid, because my parents couldn't afford them.

I was homeless a few times in my life and it was really hard growing up, but now I'm super grateful about everything.

My mother went to work in the homes of white folk, usually living in and looking after their children. The money was small.

Every day, it was the same: school, homework, farm work, training. Getting hurt or dying might've been better than the life I was living.

People watch 'The Social Network,' and what they hone in on is the wealth and the parties and the excitement, and they don't realize the grind and the 'gruelingness' and the disappointment.

We don't just hop out of bed, scratch our eyes, and become an NBA baller. It's a process. It's a tough grind that you have to go through that people don't understand.

I had been working for eight years and all I had to show for it was this horrible debt. At one point we had the bailiff at the door.