Quotes About Struggle

I know perfectly well that in football, you have good times, and you have bad times.

We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man must perform every day.

It's hard for me to perform in English.

I really like 'Hard-Knock Life' because I get to perform with all of the other girls, and it's such a strong number.

The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.

Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

It is obvious that God is looking at the heart when sacrifices are given to Him. He takes no delight in those who give up things for Lent and then act like it's such a struggle to perform what they said they wanted to do for Him.

Anger and bad experiences used to fuel my performances, but it was horribly draining.

When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.

I hate every moment of live performance.

I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.

It's difficult to be a mother and maintain a career as a performer - but then it's difficult in any industry.

To get even realer with you for a second, as a black actor, as a performer of color, I don't know how many more roles like Aaron Burr are gonna come along for me.

At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

For me, it's been a long road of growth. Not only as a performer but as a man, as a father and all that kind of stuff so at one point in my career I really just wanted to give up and hang it because I wasn't getting anywhere, I wasn't getting myself in good shape.

The stuff I do and say onstage I can do easily. As a performer, that comes easily. But being social offstage, it's not easy for me.

Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.

I always knew I wanted to be a performer. I started playing when I was in third grade, but I wasn't very good at all.

When I was a street performer, before I had any songs of my own that anybody would stop and put in money for, I would always be doing covers. Even with covers, people wouldn't stop in the beginning.

Every performer will have a bad night. It's just inevitable.

I didn't play an ODI game for 15 months when I was probably the best performer in one-day cricket. It happens in life. The best in the world are at times shown the door.

It's hard for a country performer to make a living in a Beatles society.

I think there are people with the genes for being natural performers. Sometimes they go haywire and destroy themselves because of it and because they have no order in their lives.

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.