Quotes About Struggle

The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.

Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a huge number of people up for them. I'm not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film.

When I lose, I take it very personally.

I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.

I write from the perspective of an early 20s kid who is trying to grasp an idea of what the hell is going on.

That's what makes a character interesting from an actor's perspective - the more screwed up, the better.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

I think there is less of inspiration and more of perspiration in the music industry.

Most artists don't get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kid's birthday party.

I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset.

It is quite difficult at PSG because when you lose a game there is a lot of pessimism.

I guess I am an optimist in a pessimist brain, if that makes any sense. I believe in the innate goodness of most people in this world, and yet I'm a damaged soul like many other people and have my own demons and things I struggle with.

And our pessimists think this has taken too long. Our pessimists believe that too many Americans have died. Our pessimists believe that we have lost the war.

I have a very pessimistic view that every win takes you closer to a loss because no-one in the world can keep on winning forever.

A bright future may be what humanity aspires to achieve but it's far easier to talk about conflicts that play out in dark and pessimistic settings.

Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.

I can be very pessimistic and very dark, but there is also a part of me that's very determinedly optimistic.

My great-grandfather, Peter O'Hara, was born in Ireland, I believe, in County Clare. His father, my great-great-grandfather, had actually come to America a generation before when times were very bad in Ireland. He worked in the Pennsylvania area and did well with horses and farming.

The worst loss in my career - the 2002 World Championship final against Peter Ebdon.

My critics are pretty tough. I've never been one of the music industry's pets.

Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind.

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.

What I find curious is that I ever became a writer at all. I grew up in the South Bronx, the land of poverty and petty hoodlums.

When sports gets involved with petty politics from authorities and co-athletes, it becomes a nasty game.