Quotes About Struggle

I don't know how I became controversy's favourite child.

I cried like a baby. When no one could see me or hear me. Not because I feared what cancer would do, but because I didn't want the disease. I wanted my life to be normal, which it could no longer be.

I always go into a film situation depressed and fearful.

I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety.

At my worst, I was so fearful of death I'd think about it for six hours a day.

When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.

You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.

For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.

It's feast or famine in showbiz.

Being a singer, it's feast or famine. You have to hit it when it's hot.

In Bollywood, it's always feast or famine for an actress. That's the way of the game.

When we were starting, the only old guys you'd see on stage were blues guys. They played every night, feast or famine, skint, rich, in fashion and out. You didn't have to ask them about their lives, their dreams, it was written on their faces: that's who they were and that's what they did.

My debut feature, 'The Baby-Sitters Club,' got good reviews and made good money for what it cost. But it took me six years to get to direct my second feature. I think a guy would have had another movie out the same year.

I got to the point where I'd featured on songs; I'd done backing singing for major artists. I'd done all these shows, but it was always for other people.

Nobody took you out for lunch when I started. Carla Bruni took me out for lunch once. She was really nice. Otherwise, you don't get fed.

I've beaten all contenders for 11 years. I'm not a robot; I'm fed up. My body's tired of it. I'm 36.

I think everyone is fairly fed up with mildly dysfunctional people being put under pressure and then behaving abysmally.

In my life, I've seen everything, and one thing I know for sure is you can't win in the federal court. You're going against the government of the United States. You don't beat a federal court, a federal judge, and the FBI - there's no way.

Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.

The feeble soul merely whines and complains.

I've done so many jobs because I've had to, not because I've wanted to. And it's honourable to do a job because you need to feed your children, and maybe there is also something in it for your development as an actor. But only up to a point.

To feed a nation is never easy!

When people can't feed their children, nothing else positive happens. You don't have to look farther than the United States to see that.

It is hard to bite the hands that feed you, especially when you are competing for food.