Quotes About Struggle

My family had to live in Vienna for three months, then in Italy for another nine, while we waited for refugee status.

I waited all those years for a title shot, and when I finally got it, I had to pay $20,000 for the opportunity. My purse was only $18,000. So to make money, I had to bet $10,000 on myself at 8-5. That was how it was in those days.

I moved to New York and couldn't get a job as an actor. And waited tables for so long.

Choices had become limited post 'Crook' and I was being offered films that had me play second fiddle. I realized that would take me nowhere, so I waited.

I left my home in Massachusetts after college to move to New York City to pursue my dreams of acting. I took roles for free. I waited tables. I didn't care because it was work.

I just waited tables three nights a week to cover the bases.

There are people in this country who have waited for decades for affordable health coverage for themselves and their families.

I would encounter W. E. B. Du Bois and the term double consciousness. When I read it, I thought about sitting in my mother's employer's family room, watching my mother clean while I waited for her to finish so we could go home.

I didn't work for more than two years. I sat on the couch and waited for work to come in. I got depressed, went into the abyss.

I waited a long time to get a break with Indrajit's Huduga Hudugi.'

I had a good first season at Tottenham, but in the second there wasn't a sequence of games. So when I didn't feel happy, I waited for the season to end and then asked the president to let me go to try another challenge.

People waited for my debut. But at the same time, the biggest disadvantage of a star child is facing criticism of nepotism.

They were tough times and I started working when I was 10 years old, delivering papers and eventually becoming a waiter.

I didn't start making a real living until eight or nine years in. Even after 'Goodfellas' came out, I was still working as a waiter, and people would recognize me - that was an odd experience. But when 'The Sopranos' hit, that was like an exponential leap.

I did plenty of jobs that I hated. I was a bank teller and terrible at it. I parked cars, a valet. I answered phones. I somehow avoided being a waiter. I knew I wouldn't be able to keep the order straight. I'm not much of a multi-tasker.

I did quite a lot of menial jobs. I was a waiter, an inventory clerk touring round properties listing cups and saucers, and a laserquest marshal.

Pre-'Tokyo Drift,' I was like: 'Am I gonna play Yakuza #1 and Chinese Waiter #2 for the rest of my life? Is America even ready for an Asian face that speaks English, that doesn't do Kung Fu?'

I've been auditioning since I was 20, working as a waiter, getting theater gigs, doing the 'Law and Order's.

The economic dimension is very clear. I was at a dinner party, a mother got up, who's a very distinguished scientist, and said she had to get home and help her daughter with her homework. The two waiters, their faces changed. They were working their second jobs, they couldn't get home to help their kids with homework.

I was a terrible waiter.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.

I know I am not Braddock's savior, never felt that way, and never will. There's no 'Rudy' style ending waiting for me where I get carried off the field and everything turns out O.K. for me or for Braddock.

The Indian race are waiting and praying.