Quotes About Struggle

There's no getting around it: Writing is hard, while working with young performers is nearly always a joy.

Truly great performers reveal not only their characters but bring everything they know about the world with them. It's not just what's in the script but the story of everything you've done and of who you are. If you're Chaplin, you're the immigrant. No matter what he's doing, he's always the little guy trying to make his place in the world.

We performers sacrifice so much for your entertainment.

I'm just grateful to have a job. There are an awful lot of talented performers out there who are out of work.

I'm not very good at being a performing monkey.

People expect that I'll be just perfect on ice, and that's not the case. I make mistakes, too. When I review my performance, sometimes I feel I did awful. That's the whole part of the process of what people see when I'm performing.

Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

I had the humble beginnings. I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

While I love musical theater, it wasn't the right fit for me. It's so competitive, and I was at such a disadvantage, having started performing when I was 17.

I started performing in college, but I wasn't writing a lot.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.

I wanted to be mayor, but my party didn't want me. I was perhaps too liberal.

I hear a lot of artists become kinda self-referential, and a lot of people that tour a lot tend to write about the perils of being on the road later in their careers.

There was a period of time when I couldn't seem to get anything. I was on the series 'Daniel Boone,' and then, when that ended, I was still under 18, so I was too young to be in the older category and too old to be a child. So there was a few years there that were dry.

I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.

If a film does not do well, there is a certain period when you do feel low. It affects you because you put in a lot of effort.

I have a hard time getting over an ex. Getting over an ex is just hard, period.

I had to do what I had to do to keep my family alive. Period.

I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.

We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from a safe distance and for only brief periods of time. This could be why a lot of marriages fail.

Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.

There are time when, in effect, you can do no wrong, and there are other periods of time when you can do no right, no matter what you do.