Quotes About Struggle

Roxanne Quimby wanted money and power, and I was just a pillar on the way to that success.

At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.

At one point I couldn't move or get out of bed or anything. I developed blood clots because I'd been completely inactive. Then they thought - because the pain was so much - I had an infection in the bones, so they gave me pills, which gave me a tummy infection. It's like a French farce.

But one led to two, two led to four, four led to eight, until at the end it was about 85 a day - the doctors could not believe I was taking that much. And that was just the valium - I'm not talking about the other pills I went through.

I have big problems with the left side of my body. I'm taking pills so I can play. I take five pills before every game.

I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened.

Being in a male-dominated career field as a combat pilot, I got used to kind of blocking out the lies in the attacks that people would levy against me and trying to tell me who I am and define who I am when I know what I'm fighting for.

I did the 'Gunsmoke' pilot for $250. We were all so hungry, we would have done anything.

I feel like network didn't want me. I was doing all these pilots, and it never worked out. I was like, network doesn't like me. I'm going to go to cable where I'm appreciated. Then it was funny; I think I had to go to cable for network to appreciate me.

I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.

I've written several pilots that haven't gone, so that's why you haven't seen any.

We shoot a lot of pilots that don't get picked up, and no one ever sees them at all.

I've had nine failed pilots. I've been doing TV for a long time.

I've got pimples on my face, I'm losing some hair.

The Gift' doesn't deal with the neat, tie-me-up-with-a-bow kind of stories - they are grittier, messier, and not all of them have a happy resolution. You are following people and events that are more difficult, more elusive, and therefore harder to pin down.

Sometimes you become the person people try to pin you into a corner to be, which is not really fair.

The things in life which try to pin us down are the things we have to try to work against.

Sometimes you get the pinball machine and sometimes the pinball machine gets you.

You're a defensive lineman, you get knocked around from all different angles. I've been knocked around like a pinball quite a few times.

I always believed that all it would take was a decent role. I felt like a pinch hitter with a leaden bat: that if I got a chance, I could hit a home run.

The late 80s was quite a difficult time for me as an artist because I'd almost become a parody of myself. All people wanted was pink hair and for me to sing 'I Want to Be Free.' There's nothing wrong with either of those but people need to see you as a person for you to be an artist.

I am not at a level where I will be flooded with offers. Hopefully, things will change after 'Pink.' It is one film after 'Shaitan' where I am hoping things will change for me.

For me, my continuous struggle with every project is, "Is it better than 'Pink?'"

When we got quite big and were generating a lot of money through the arenas, we became quite a big thing, and a lot of managers appeared, and it became a big machine, like we were in Pink Floyd or something, and I don't think we were into that. We didn't really compromise.