Quotes About Struggle

Kangana didn't have a penny when I met her.

I've always been someone who has wanted to fight and to scrap for every penny I could.

I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

I never had the money to start a pension - I didn't start to make any real money until I was 58 - and now it's not worth much.

I might be able to high fly when I'm wrestling Pentagon, at the end of the day, Pentagon won that match. At the end of the day, I took 10 package piledrivers, so I don't really want to do that again.

It can beat an artist down when people say bad things about you.

It harms me when people say I am 'non-mainstream' or 'non-commercial' actor. I try to fight off such labels.

You know how a lot of people say they could go crazy? Well, I feel I live very close to that line.

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

People say it's cathartic to write a book, but it turned out to be quite painful!

The relationship with Pep wasn't a very good one.

I identify with the 99 per cent.

When I came to Arsenal, I was on a scholarship earning £80 per week away from my family.

If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm not in danger of running out of riffs or ideas anytime soon. They overwhelm me and it's hard to find time to deal with them.

Auditioning for a couple of years, 99 per cent of the time you are doing an American accent.

It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.

It's a dog-eat-dog world when it comes to music and how people perceive it.

I have seen several hardships since I was a child. As a result, I don't perceive things the way most people do.

I spent many years trying to fit in and do things the way I thought I was supposed to - trying to be perceived the way I thought people wanted to see me. I grew up in a very religious household and wasn't taught to feel comfortable or good about my sexuality, so it feels great to be able to say things the way I want to say them.

The black experience, which has nothing to do with my play 'Angels in America,' allowed me to understand the Mormon character. He was the character that couldn't come out to his mother. It allowed me to understand emotional and closeted behavior, because you're so acutely aware of how you're perceived.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.

Ninety percent of the time when I'm working, there's this very palpable sensation that I'm doing everything wrong and should just give up.

No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses.