Quotes About Struggle

It's very hard to step into a job when people are just dismissing you as a pretty face, and saying you got your job only because your surname is McMahon.

I was really heavy growing up, so it was never feeling like the pretty girl, never being popular.

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

I had a very hard time accepting myself as a character actress because I wanted to be glamorous and a leading lady like everybody else. I looked in the mirror and thought I looked pretty good, but casting didn't ever see me that way.

For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.

I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written, but the next morning I see that it's crap. Then I start again - make a new outline, do some more research, try to rethink the whole question.

I guess Johnny Depp has a pretty good career. I love a lot of parts that actors have played, so I love pieces of their career, but it's pretty hard to look at an actor's whole career and go, 'That was awesome!' Usually it either ends on a crappy show or with no work at all.

It's hard to live up to the expectations. Besides that, I think I had a very good NBA career, and I'm proud of it. I might not have been an absolute monster, but I thought I did pretty good.

When I was out there on the floor, I think I did pretty good for myself... I've never really had enough time to play and actually improve.

Big things, a real crisis, I think I'm pretty good, but this little thing will just wallop me. I think I'm managing depression better now: when the mood comes, I just try and sit it out.

I mean, defending isolations is easy, but it's hard at the same time. I think I'm a pretty good defender, but when you go against guys that can make tough shots, it makes you feel so bad, like, 'Oh, man, these guys just made a tough shot on me.'

I am not a natural dancer, not even a half way competent dancer.

I am no dancer.

Coming into 'Dancing With the Stars,' I thought it would be a lot easier.

At Treviso, my entire career was in danger; I lost all self-esteem and confidence.

Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic.

I'm going to try to not eat any more dark chocolate, and that's going to be very, very hard for me because I'm completely addicted to dark chocolate.

I think we all have light and dark inside us.

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

When you get to a place where a person is so angry that they can do anything - it's a dark dark place.

In stand-up, there's that idea that comedy comes from a dark place, but it's not a rule.

I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place.

The South is just a dark place, man.

I only write when I'm in a dark place. I hit 'record' and get it out, writing and playing my guitar at the same time.