Quotes About Hardship

I've got this horrible feeling that I'm one of those people who'll always have to flog their guts out to get anywhere.

All great films have stories attached to them of how horrific they were to get made.

Macri only wooed hot money, carry traders and speculators. He is the only responsible person for the hardship Argentina is going through.

When I was doing 'Hot Shot,' I didn't even have an album deal.

I had such a horrible childhood. My father was already married with three children when I was born and my mother didn't know. So we grew up poor. We had no hot water until I was 17. I went to work in a factory, and worked and saved for months until I had the money to come to England.

I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.

I spent eight years living without heat and hot water.

I come from the restaurant business; you're talking to a guy used to working 12, 14 hours a day.

I grew up in a household where my mom made $16,000 a year. I know the struggle. I know how to keep those things in perspective, and I do keep it into perspective.

I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite literate, but was very proud that she attended school as far as the third grade. She worked as a maid, housekeeper and cook.

I worked 10 hours a day with my father, having no money in our life from the age of eight to 15. We were driving a $500 car to now having millions and earning millions at 24, having houses all over the world.

My family were so poor. My mum would clean houses to maybe get me to a ballet class, bless her.

I remember my mother doing housework until four in the morning and then a couple of hours later taking me to school.

People look at you and see that you've made it, but sometimes they forget that it took you years of being a human being.

Both my parents are lawyers. They come from humble beginnings.

Every hour I spent on manual work, every hour I was humiliated in England or degraded has helped me because that's the same way other people feel in the townships here. People are still walking long distances and are working long hours.

In our most desperate times, people going through true hardships use humor to cope.

When I started I'd fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks.

In 1972 through '74, right before we hit it big, we were hauling our own equipment into the club and setting up and playing for, I don't know, a hundred bucks a night.

I'm probably my own harshest critic. If I get a hundred good reviews and one really bad one, it's that one out of a hundred that I remember. I think we actors are hard on ourselves, and I don't know why that is.

I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.

the men were offered extra supplies of pemmican, a gumlike mixture of animal fat and protein. At its best, it tasted like salt-pork chewing gum. At its worst, it was like rancid whale blubber.

There were a lot of people who deserved a lesson, deserved to really understand, that nothing came easy, that most things were going to go sour.

Todos los tipos que había allí tenían el mismo aspecto, como si sus vidas fueran tan duras que habían borrado sus rasgos individuales