Quotes About Struggle

I was 5 when I got the speech about how I would have to work harder and longer than everyone else because I was brown.

I was well into adulthood before I was prepared to acknowledge the simple fact that I am gay. It took years of struggle and growth for me to recognize that it's just a fact of life, like having brown hair, and part of who I am.

In America in general... I know there are a lot of parts where may be it is not that great to be brown or black.

Sometimes my family got me in the door. Somebody would say, 'Bruce Dern's daughter - sure I'd like to meet her.' It was a point of interest. But after five minutes of talking about my father, I still had to read for the part.

Moving from Rome to Brussels was hard.

Magazines can be kind of brutal, and independent magazines especially are really hard, and it takes work for it to feel like its actually a functioning place.

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

You either create something there on the street, or nothing happens. It's brutal. But if you go through that for two or three years, it really toughens you up.

Comedy can be a little brutal, but not in a satisfying way.

I change my mind every five minutes. I'm very brutal with my own process. I throw everything away very quickly, and then I have to go out and rummage through the rubbish in the middle of the night to try to find a bit I'd written a week ago.

I know how hard it is to come back from a brutal KO.

This game can be brutal. As soon as you get comfortable, it bites you. You have to stay on it all the time.

The entertainment business is brutal.

I've seen the police brutality.

You're always going to have a Dez Bryant somewhere in the league, somebody who has to go through some off-the-field problems in order to reach his potential.

Sometimes when you lose a game, you win a game, you get stuck in the bubble.

I'm just a battler making an honest buck who goes home to his missus and his dog at the end of the day.

It's on my bucket list, to get in a real fight.

It's hard to get the right elements together, get the right cast, get them at the time you need them, get the script completely there, and get the right budget.

Making a record's really hard. You deal with the money stuff - you never have the budget you need. You're working with so many egos.

Teams with limited budgets will always find times tough and results won't always go your way.

'American Buffalo' is special. I can't wait to fight to make an audience feel about it as I do.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

I used to play shows in D.C. and then drive back to New York to work at 6 A.M. So there are those moments, and you just really need to power through them. Eventually, it builds on itself.