Quotes About Struggle

If my life is a movie - in the movie, there's always the bad part. There's also the parts where you're down and out, and there are parts where everything's amazing.

It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.

Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again.

An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.

I moved out to LA, got an agent, started auditioning. I didn't know anything about how it worked. And since I was really bad, luckily, I didn't get any of those parts.

I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.

There are parts of me that I keep secret even from myself. I have demons and I'd love to be able to healthily look at the demons and still be a wonderful actor and not feel I need them to create.

As an actress, you're already disregarded for a lot of the parts by the people who are setting up those shows. You don't need your agent to be doing the same.

I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.

If you are a junior member of a minority party - one of 100 people - in the U.S. Senate, what really can you do? Well, you're just going to get frustrated.

It's a cold world out there, and this world will pass you by if you give another man anything over yourself.

And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.

Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality for somebody else. Let's pass it on. Let's pass it on to somebody else. At the end of the day, it is all about inequality.

I was always ranked last in my class. My problem was that I would obtain a just pass and move on to the next class!

Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much as I hit Ali, the pain would take over and you would pass out.

I took a Groundlings class in my 20s, and I was terrible. They didn't even pass me to the next level.

Well, writing for me had always been my first love and what I leaned on as a way to kind of endure difficult passages.

I know he was definitely beaten by her. I saw it many times. But we had a different way of dealing with her. He'd let her have more and more booze until she passed out.

It's almost as if a demon might have passed from one host to another.

My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer.

I tried to kickbox once right after I had my first baby, and I was so miserable; it was so hard. And I went home, and I passed out for three hours because it's so hard.

I've always felt that there's a Catskills comic who lives in my head and is constantly trying to get out. There's all these jokes that have been passed down from Jewish generation to Jewish generation, which I love but which I've always made fun of.

I have passed all the physical hardships known to man.

People have to remember this - I've literally been going at this music thing since my mother passed away.