Quotes About Hardship

I think what pushes me every day is that I'm so afraid to fail. I think it comes from what I went through in school growing up and not being great in the classroom and having to work harder than everybody else.

Being a lifeguard, not having much money - that is the thing that pushes me the most. I don't want to be in that situation again.

Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.

It feels bad when a film doesn't work; everyone puts in a lot of effort to make a movie. The positive side to failure - they make me work harder.

It's very hard being a mother or father and not being able to provide for your family. Your job as a parent is to keep them safe and protect them, and when aspects of that are taken away it puts these people in an awful situation.

I think I was always driven because I came from absolutely nothing. I was that piece of rubbish from a block of flats on a council estate.

I was even treated as a 'flop,' a contract that doesn't pay. But I kept working my best.

My parents believed in the American dream and the power of education, but didn't have the money to send me to college. I realized early on that I needed to go against the flow and be better than everyone else to support my family.

Nothing's by fluke and nothing's been given to me.

Let's start off with my father being a mailman. So I understand the concerns of all the folks across this country, some of whom having trouble, you know, making ends meet.

I think poor folks are the only people who cannot afford - financially and otherwise - to be sick.

I never went through an easy fight. Every fight has been hard fought.

I fought from the time I was eight years old, sometimes three, four fights a night. We did it to eat, and we did it because we were just tough kids.

I've fought hard to get where I am.

I'm a person who fought for what I have.

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

I didn't have the luxury of going to the four year school for acting.

My mother worked as a maid, cleaning the fraternity dorm of the local college.

'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.

My mother worked in a school canteen - then worked in the canteen of a chicken factory. Every Friday, the pay packet money would be allocated to cover bills.

Poverty took me from being the girl who was always the lead in the school play, to a woman who can't open her own front door.

I'm like anybody else. You get enough, you can get beat up. You can get hurt. You can get frustrated. You can get demoralized.

My mother lost her job, so I left school to work full-time to support her.

Life was something Dad enjoyed to the fullest. He put some tough years on himself. He probably would have had another 10 years to live if he hadn't been so hard on himself. But there again, he sure did live while he was here.