Quotes About Struggle

I feel like I'm always trying to make a movie about the Two Faced Man in some way.

When I started my career, I was faced with a challenge of making my own identity.

I was able to come out to my family, but other than that I couldn't come out to co-workers or to friends because of what that would mean for my military life and my career. That made my life difficult, because I felt like I was constantly conflicted and at war with myself every day that I faced people.

I have one of those faces that nobody likes.

Everyone faces adversity.

I never went into the mine. But I saw my father and other men coming out, day after day, their faces and bodies covered in soot. It looked very hard and dangerous.

An abused childhood affects the entire life... It affects every facet of the life.

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

Only facing right-handers and not left-handers is hard for me.

Depression is a serious thing and, after my defeat to Pacquiao, I was facing retirement and didn't cope with it very well.

Suarez and I are similar and I like facing strikers like him.

At 16, I was facing 11 life felonies.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

Before going on 'X Factor' again, I felt like I'd tried everything else.

Black isn't something I became after a car crash that I've been dealing with ever since. I'd like the colour of my skin to not be a factor in my life at all.

When I came off 'The X Factor,' I wasn't necessarily the biggest thing. I really wasn't.

I think I've done everything on 'The X Factor' apart from the cleaning.

It was difficult to step away. I've always been an athlete. And to give that up was extremely daunting. The looming factor of brain damage, to me, was too strong.

So many months in the 'X Factor' house and sharing my room with five other girls was tough.

There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I must find somebody or something because like this I cannot go on.

My father passed away when I was two, and my mother was just 22-years-old back then. So young and only soul to take care of three brats. We were highly in debt and our financial condition was really bad. My mother used to work in a factory, and she used to complete the pending work at home.

I think, a lot of times, bands will break up because their goal is commercial success, and most bands aren't going to get that: it's out of their control. If you do, you're one of the lucky ones, but that commercial success will likely fade, and you'll end up breaking up anyway.

It's difficult to find an actress prepared to play a fading star.

I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail.