Quotes About Struggle

I still have to work paycheck to paycheck. Being in show business doesn't indicate that you're a 'success,' in my opinion.

What you learn growing up in a place like Buffalo is that your job isn't just your paycheck, it's your identity. It doesn't just give you dollars, it gives you dignity.

In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.

I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's no paycheck at the end; it's more of a 'whatever is left over' kind of situation.

Acting has always been a strong force in my life, but it was hard to change direction. I didn't make a paycheck for two years.

I live like most of the people in my district: paycheck to paycheck.

I realize how lucky I am to be able to go a couple months without a paycheck, but a lot of industry people go paycheck to paycheck.

I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.

The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.

I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don't generally see art as a career choice; they simply can't overcome their desire to make art, and will live on little income for as long as they have to, before they start to sell their work - or give up and get a paying job.

I like not having to worry about paying the bills, but I have to watch myself because I don't come from money.

People of my generation are used to collecting the heroic boys. And they're used to paying a lot of money for heroic boys. I don't make a third of what a guy would make.

A lot of work is going in, and it's not paying off. And it's becoming very frustrating for me.

My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That's what I did in first grade. But she couldn't afford the payments. I think it must have hurt her a lot, not to be able to give me a Catholic education.

There is something inherently foolish in soldiering on when there is no hope of payoff.

In '38, this time I did a job for Mr. Stryker. I went on his payroll at about half the salary I was getting before, to cover what he called Harvest in Ohio.

At Wikinvest, which got renamed Sigfig, we were constantly just two or three months away from not being able to make payroll.

I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever.

I don't think it pays to just be an artist, particularly for kids of color - there will be fewer roles.

I enjoyed the Hee Haw people, but from 1980 on I didn't enjoy it and thought about leavin', and thought, hell, it's an easy job and pays wonderful. I kinda just prostituted myself for their money.

When opportunities are few, only hard work pays.

The real leaders cannot appear in the peaceful time; nor can the serious opposition emerge from within the peaceful atmosphere. Without an open confrontation, there is no opposition!

We tried our best for the longest time to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the matter, and at each step, we were thwarted by those that said, No, we will not turn the boy over to his father.

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.