Quotes About Struggle

In '81, my father had an attack of paralysis.

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

I don't clean now, because I'm paralyzed. But let me tell you, I would clean. I cleaned, and I ironed. It's my inner femininity.

People get in auto accidents, they're paralyzed for life. I got hurt worse getting married.

I crave for adventure. It makes me feel alive and excited. It's a constant tussle between what you want to do and other parameters that aren't in your hands.

And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it.

I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.

The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.

Of course I don't think I have it made by any means. I'm too insecure, obsessive and paranoid for that.

Being skint, drunk, paranoid - no, I don't wish that for myself.

Fame really drove me into my house. I was very paranoid. I didn't like going out. I had no idea how to be comfortable with the press. I was very young. It was really hard for me.

As a child actor, you experience a lot of depression and anxiety... Yes, I went through depression, and it was not comfortable. Yes, I struggle with anxiety and being paranoid, trying to figure out who I am.

Joe and I are still very aware of the fact that we live in a country where he criticised the government and lived another day. That trumps all. To paraphrase Churchill, democracy is the worst form of government apart from all the other forms of government. You constantly have to fight for it; you have to keep your government honest.

There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.

We didn't have running water. We had to get water from wells, and there was a stint where I lived with my grandma where we had to get water, bring it over to the house. You had to boil the water because you never knew what parasites were in the water.

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

Sometimes it's a bizarre, fairly cold, and horrifying thing to be a parent.

My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love. He just, he had a rough life. You know, he grew up in a boys home in the Bronx. He didn't really know his own family. So I couldn't hold it against him that he didn't know how to parent. He didn't know how to be the perfect husband. But he loved as much as he could.

When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.

I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I'm trying to be what my mother wasn't for me. My mother's battled depression, so I understand it now as a parent, some of the things that she must have been going through.

Any kid who grew up with an alcoholic parent will tell you how nauseating it feels never to know what it will be like when you come home.

Nobody's gonna be a perfect parent, you know? We're all doing the best we can.

I've thought for years, sometimes against my will, about what kind of son I'm supposed to be, what's expected. Being Korean, that's a particularly charged question. Is your duty to your culture or to your parent? Is your life your own, or the second half of your parents' life? Who owns your life?

It is devastating, losing a parent. I don't really know what the effect is, but I suppose people might call me an ambitious man, and I'd say that an ambitious man is a damaged man.