Quotes About Struggle

There is no way, believe me, despite my name being Winfield, and loving the game dearly. It wasn't in the cards. I didn't know what it was going to take to get here.

Despite all of our efforts to control something, the world is much, much more powerful than us, and more deranged even than us.

I wasn't sure what it would take to make it in the theater, but despite the struggle, that was all I ever really wanted.

I had to learn to accept myself despite the fact that I was seriously underweight. I had to try and feel sexy.

Prizefighter changed my life in so many ways, and I was dying to go into it despite me being the least experienced.

Despite growing up in very poor circumstances, my father had big dreams.

I was a terrible student. When I went to Sidwell Friends, there were 100 kids in my class. I was the worst student, by far. But I had a few teachers who, despite all that, believed in me.

I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

It's easier to destroy than it is to create, but I've always enjoyed the creative aspect of the game.

If you can't stop somebody from working and making movies that you hate, what's the next best thing? Destroy them personally.

It's hard to see a certain type of press try to destroy your life.

Pablo wanted to be loved and accepted. He wanted to destroy the elite he despised so much, but he also wanted to be the president of Colombia.

I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.

There is a huge agenda behind trying to destroy me and put me down.

I don't stay in accent or anything, but internally, I get quite dark and destroy myself a little bit. But that's what I do, and I enjoy it. It's how I do my work.

The nature of racism is that it grinds down the soul of the man more finely than it does the soul of the woman. When you want to conquer a people or subject it, you destroy the male component.

What I would hate to go through is what happened in the mid-90s playing in front of a half-empty theatre, which prompted me to say 'never again' when it came to Waterford. To go through that again in any of the places I call home would destroy me.

I don't know how you completely destroy your dark side.

For 217 years, the whole history of the country has been based on conspiracies, coups, assassinations. We conspire to destroy it, never to build it.

I grew up really religious, and my family still is, but I'm not so much. That scene in 'Cool Hand Luke', it just destroyed me.

You can only be creative so long and then you're just down and out and completely destroyed.

Wife number four destroyed me absolutely: took me down to the bottom of the barrel because I had three kids with her.

By 2012, my game was shot. You're sitting on your chair watching players' leagues below you play shots you can't. That destroyed me.