Quotes About Struggle

Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic.

To cast Ida, it took ages, and I was a bit desperate. I couldn't find somebody I could believe in. I spent months looking for the lead among young actresses and drama students.

It's always really funny to watch someone who really wants something who isn't getting it but who's desperate for it.

Whether you're a man or a woman, life can be very, very difficult and confusing and desperate, and it's life-enhancing to know that somehow, there is a way through it.

Desperate times make for desperate songs.

I find Los Angeles a bit desperate. For me, the energy there is bad.

I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.

Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa.

My parents were desperately trying to become documented citizens of this country and tried very hard to get there, but to no avail.

In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't proud of it, like I have been before or since.

I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that.

There's this classic car crash thing about 'Macbeth.' You can just see this car driving at 100 mph towards this brick wall, and you can't do anything about it, and the characters are desperately trying to stop it and can't.

People are always trying to be on top. And not always with a macabre agenda, but I think that people are desperately trying to remain in control, rather than being honest.

My father was desperately trying to be a legal contributor to this society.

My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.

Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.

I realize that the wish to write in a new language derives from a kind of desperation.

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

I'm impossible when a book is taking shape. Well, actually, I'm despicable.

No, I don't want to exercise all the time. I still despise it, not at all.

I despised basketball for a long time.

I despised trying to lose weight, and I resented everyone that made me feel like I had to.

This is what's hard: I know I'm legally a man, but I'm also male-minded, despite having the female appearance.