Quotes About Struggle

The problem is that the top five guys in UFC make all the money, and the rest make scraps.

My whole life I've never felt, as a female, I was up to scratch.

Everybody has a story... and a scream.

The first 'Scream' was great for me in some ways, but in others it was... a challenge.

I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.

I can't watch myself on screen without dying a little bit inside. And there are lots of moments when I think, 'What am I doing as an actor? I can't act!'

It's hard writing screenplays.

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

You know what, when you screw up in the ring, it's so embarrassing.

Every time I've ever gotten close to being successful, I've found some way to screw it up.

I can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.

My children are the thing that make life work because, you know, I screwed up my life, and I know it was me, and it was really hard because it was so public, and that was very, very hard.

It took me a long time to get my life screwed up, and it's going to take a long time to get it back.

I screwed up my life. I screwed up my kids' lives.

I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black.

Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.

When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write.

A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.

Most scripts that get written in Hollywood don't go anywhere.

'EastEnders' changed everything. I was a jobbing actress living in Stepney, and I was on the dole at one point. Then people started to send me scripts, which was always my dream.

I use an acne cleanser. I've always had that St. Ives apricot scrub. But I have bad skin sometimes.

Every time I think I'd want a huge, huge career, I realize I'd go crazy under that kind of scrutiny.