Quotes About Struggle

30 years and 55 pictures - not more than five that were any good, or any good for me.

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

There's this idea that motherhood is as American as apple pie, but yet we don't support it with any government assistance.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Life is not a piece of cake, and it certainly is not for many of the people I know.

With every interview you feel like you lose a piece of yourself, and with every bad review you become just that little bit more bitter. It is horrible in a way.

I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot emotions - you can end up being deeply immersed in gloom.

People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.

When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.

I love period pieces. But it's hard to get money to make costumed dramas, so we'll see.

People did pigeonhole me.

I think I was pigeonholed pretty early on. And I started late in my career. I was 33.

You get pigeonholed. You accept it or you fight it. I've accepted it.

Dehumanizing sounds so extreme, but when you're fighting for a football at the bottom of the pile, it is kind of dehumanizing.

When you pick up injuries, you put yourself to the bottom of the pile for a bit and have to work yourself up.

I have no great desire to play a great role. You can't make quality on TV anyway. It's always a manure pile. You're on the top, or you're on the bottom, but it's still a manure pile, and I'm not sure the movie industry isn't like that, too.

I have a pile of scripts at home that I love. Some of them are hard to get made. We have to give up stuff. It's hard to get movies made.

I'm still fighting for parts - it's not like I'm sitting with a big pile of scripts putting them in a 'yes' and 'no' pile.

I am a pile of reworked flaws weaved into a semi-functioning man.

A lot of people get up to the top of the pile, maybe get one No. 1 contender match-up, and if they lose, they drift into obscurity. I lost, and I went back a bit. But I built myself back up. Three times.

People who live inside garbage piles - that should not be happening.

There were times over the years when I wanted to take a break from 'Scott Pilgrim,' or even just stop doing 'Scott Pilgrim,' when I was feeling down or whatever.

If you look at the beginning of this country, when the pilgrims came to this country, the first year they had a communistic experiment. They said, 'OK, we're going to take the land, we're going to work the land together and share in the fruits of our labor.' They almost starved to death. Almost half of them died that first year.

Yeah, I think everybody goes through periods, especially in college, where the homework is really piling up and then you have several more weeks of school left and you think that you'll never be able to get through all the homework problems that you have to do or read all the books or write all the papers that you have to write.