Quotes About Hardship

We'd played for years to half-empty clubs in England.

You pay your dues and work your way up through the system, whatever system there is - something guys in the business today don't really understand, don't have a clue.

We didn't have much money when I was younger, so I had to collect Coke bottles and cash them in and get a paper route to afford a guitar. That guitar from Sears came with a case and an amp and everything all in one. It was really cool.

I think TV composers don't get enough credit. I really think it is one of the hardest jobs.

A lot of people didn't know just what eviction does to people, how it really sets their life on a different and much more difficult path, acting not like a condition of poverty but a cause of it.

I am sort of drawn toward places in the world where there is struggle and conflict.

I am quite proud that I managed to prove that you don't have to be able to afford drama school or have the right connections to do well.

The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the creative writing and the history are super simple, but like junior high, you do that easy work surrounded by people who are full-tilt, hormone-raging bug nutty.

In the restaurant business, if you break even, you're lucky. It's a really hard business, it's a survival business.

My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.

We had nothing in hand and my father used to live on the street. The profession of acting happened to him when B.R. Chopra picked him up for a film, and my father acted just to earn money for survival.

I didn't take the money route because I saw my parents struggle for survival.

There is no planning in a life of fighting to keep a roof over your head. It's pure survival.

I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it's like they're in the desert with no water, and they're the ones that survive. But I've been really fortunate to have people on my team who are optimistic about the future and who know that if you work through hard times that there's usually something good at the end.

The power organisation of Israel gives what they can to fight me, to cause me some harm, damages in health, mind, and they succeed little bit, but I survived and I am now free, but it was very hard - a very difficult time - and I wish no one would suffer what I suffered, and then when I speak to you and try to be human being like everyone.

I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer.

I realise that surviving in the film industry is not an easy job, but if one puts one's heart and soul into one's work, anything is possible.

With 'Survivor' - I didn't get any sleep, there was no food, we had to boil our water... plus, it was physically taxing during the day. That's what made it more difficult than three-a-day practices.

I have done a lot greater things than 'Survivor.' Going through SEAL training was much harder than 'Survivor.'

You can't do everything I did for all those years and not sustain some injuries.

A lot of people say I look like a rock star or a designer punk. But I swear it's the job that has carved my face. It's the hours, the stress, and the pressure. It's not me trying to look like this.

Life is not perfect. I've had my share of sweat, blood and pain.

You know, obviously I've been around for a while, so I've got a little sweat and blood equity built up.

I love hard work. If I'm not sweating, then I'm not working.