Quotes About Struggle

The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.

It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.

I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.

When I was young, people were so disgusted by me. Before I even knew that I was gay... everybody else had it figured out and, you know, they were letting you know.

I've always felt I want to be of service to the world somehow. I haven't yet figured out how to do it, and I may never figure out how to do it.

I think about food all the time, so making peace with eating is a daily battle for me. I won't say I've completely figured it out, but I will say that right now, I win that battle more days than I lose it, and I believe that's the key.

I think a lot of people look at athletes in general and think they have everything figured out. They made it to the big leagues... We're battling and going through the same stuff everyone else is going through, but just in a different way. Maybe it can be comforting knowing that we have to battle through some of the same stuff.

Figuring out a way to balance the Boxer story with the Chinese Christians was difficult.

The women who file for bankruptcy played by all the rules, but they are still in economic freefall.

From the age of three, my life has been documented by social workers. There's a file somewhere in Walsall Social Services saying: 'He was a bit difficult today; he was trying to find out about his parents.' Or: 'He locked himself in his room and is collecting beer mats.'

The superhighway of celebrity and showmanship is filled with debris.

A series is filled with compromises.

There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.

You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it.

It is not a happy time when a film doesn't do well... Everything affects you, success affects you and failure also affects you.

The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.

I think everybody works from a defensive position, for the most part, in the film industry.

It's never easy for an actor who doesn't have connections in the film industry and who has to start from scratch.

When I started out, at 19, I was told, by the media and the film industry to do a certain kind of films and work with certain kind of stars. Coming from a non-filmi background, I did not know how to go about it, as there were different people trying to push me in various directions.

Though there is lot of struggle, nothing deterred my ambition to get into the film industry.

My father is the son of a farmer so its a little difficult for me to make him understand the fashion and the film industry.

When I was young, I wanted, most of all, to be a writer of films and film music. But Middlesbrough in 1968 wasn't the place to be if you wanted to do movie scores.

I could see when I was filming '21' that it was going to go a direction I wasn't comfortable with it going.

I hate filming in the studio.