Quotes About Struggle

I felt pain every night. After games, it took me a long time to walk to my car, and the driving home, it took me a couple of minutes even to get out of my car and extend my legs and just walk.

People I love and trust advise me to just drop off the face of the Earth for an extended period of time, and maybe that will calm or cool things down. But my work is very public work.

The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

I think this idea of fighting the enemy within is sort of more interesting than fighting an external enemy.

Actors who are not accepted are the ones who have to put in the extra effort to get somewhere in their careers. But once you achieve that, everything becomes easier.

I'm still a woman of color in this business and there are times when you still have to walk through extra doors and have extra things to prove.

Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position.

People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.

'The Walking Dead' is an extraordinary thing.

You want to make movies about extraordinary people, but those extraordinary people have to have a huge journey.

I have extreme ADD.

It's really sad sometimes that you have to go to that extreme bottom to find your way back up, but it's true.

I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.

We got extremely lucky. It's a tough business to work with.

I've always had an eye for what looks good on a man. But I've not always found it easy to find clothes that look good on me.

When I moved to L.A., I was penniless, absolutely beyond broke and in debt up to my eyeballs.

If you're an actor, you get your eyes put out; you get everything done to you.

I went to school in the Bronx. I learned to constantly try to cover up the fact that I was gay. That facade of being somebody I'm really not just to protect myself definitely helped with acting.

Growing up, there was a lot of pressure to live up to certain expectations and money as if I was rich and stuff. It was a bit of a facade.

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

I have always faced challenges in my life.

I've faced more than 35 major leaguers, and only two have ever made contact against me.

There are a lot of challenges I undeniably have faced as a black person both in the U.K. and in the U.S. that contrived to make me feel lesser than what I am.