Quotes About Struggle

I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.

I don't think the game should be perfect. It's 95 percent mistakes out there - you have to work with 10 players on your side and another 11 against you. It's a crazy, chaotic game.

That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.

Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent.

I think - there's always going to be a percentage of people who maybe aren't as good as others.

Ninety percent of my roles, I've had to fight for. It's only a really small percentage of people who get handed roles.

The percentage of actors employed is pretty small, and if you're lucky enough to have a good run at it, you do have a sense of responsibility.

The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.

I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods.

When things begin to go bad, the perception of people makes it worse.

I've always felt like I'm on the outside. I think certain people judge you right away, and I've always been acutely sensitive to that. I'm fighting, whether it's accurate or not, a perception that I get of people thinking I'm dumb.

With each film, you are still trying to get the length and measure right. And failure is all about others' perception of you. When you have one success, they think you know it all. But if you fail, they think they know it all.

Don't matter what I do, what I say, how much I try to change. You don't change perception.

People would say that I looked good on screen but they could not cast me as I was bit overweight. It was never an issue in Malayalam films. Now, that I have lost some weight, they ask me if there is something wrong with me? It is just a matter of perception.

I have learned already that you have to work against people's perception as they want to box you in very quickly.

People anyway didn't take me seriously because of the way I look. And for some reason, there's this Indian perception that sportspersons should look wanting, they should look like they've put up a real struggle.

There seems to be this perception that there was some seat waiting out there for me, that Greens were absolutely guaranteed to win - and there wasn't.

There was a lot of struggle. People have different perceptions about you and sometimes looks also can limit you as an actor.

Nobody has a perfect anything. We don't have perfect lives. We're not perfect beings.

Man is never perfect nor contented.

Although I am a Christian, I am not even close to perfect.

It's a dog eat dog world, and Mr. Perfect is a Milk Bone.

I am far from a perfect pro-lifer.

I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect.