Quotes About Struggle

Self esteem and a healthy body image for people with disabilities are so often hard-fought.

A lot of people have money, but they don't have peace with it. They can't sleep. They need bodyguards every day.

I spent five years in Dublin as a stand-up, living on pea sandwiches. But at times I quite enjoyed the bohemian penniless existence.

Nina Simone sacrificed so much to be as bold as she was about being black and about being female in an era where that could have cost her life.

You want to do a lot as an artist, and Bollywood does not always give you that freedom.

As much as I'm happy, I know it's not going to be easy in Bollywood.

When I entered Bollywood, I didn't have any advantage over anyone. I didn't know how to act, I was not from the industry, I didn't know the language, and I didn't know how to dance. So, whatever films I was getting, I was just taking them up.

People are wrong when they say that there is struggle in Bollywood. That is only when you don't have the talent. If you have talent, Bollywood comes to you.

I did not have any roadmap for entering Bollywood.

Life in Bollywood was not easy. It took me many years to establish myself, it was a struggle.

Bollywood is a huge industry with a lot of competition and you always have to stay at the top of the game.

I have not tried enough to be in Bollywood.

Bollywood didn't know what to do with me. And I didn't know what to do with it, because I didn't want to do its kind of films.

I was too foreign-looking for Bollywood.

I don't have anybody in my life who's connected to the industry. I don't have a producer dad. I don't have friends in Bollywood. I really don't know how to go about it.

People just never saw me beyond my looks. Being good looking sometimes works against you in Bollywood.

I got rid of Warlock's lightning bolt because... it was a real pain to draw.

When bombing is going on, you see a lot of people screaming around you and you can't do anything if you're small. You just want to break out of that and be strong.

My parents say I bond with kids very well, but I am always fighting with them. I don't know how to handle them.

Barry Bonds was still young when his father's fall began. Although Bobby still continued to put up good numbers year after year, he never lived up to expectations.

We are beaten, we will make no bones about it; but we are not too badly beaten still to fight.

If you feel you have made a great piece of work, which the script for 'The Lovely Bones' was, and that it suddenly means nothing, it's like being in the land of the lost. You don't know what's good or bad and what anything means.

No players want to hear their own fans booing the players, booing the team, but football is a hard game, and you can't win everything.

I'm going to tell you right now, no one is harder on me than me. The fact that fans sit there and boo me, I'm booing myself when I'm walking in.