Quotes About Struggle

In my 20s, I was carving a space for myself in the world of entertainment.

I was an emotional basket case.

In most cases, in this sport, for guys to advance in this sport, you gotta fight. If you don't fight, you're not making it, because it's too competitive.

We still have money issues. We will always have them as long as Cash Money is selling anything that has Mannie Fresh on it.

After 'Ra.One,' 'Cash,' 'Tum Bin 2' did not work, I almost lost my confidence as a director.

I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman.

I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.

I was always cast doing something athletic. I can't do a cartwheel.

I've been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years.

Every sport has its own cast of characters.

I don't play bad guys. I think that's why I keep getting cast as bad guys: because I don't want to play bad guys. I want to play human beings that struggle with life.

You build dreams, you build castles in the air, and you hope that at least part of that will be realized, even under apartheid.

Every era casts cancer in its own image.

You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.

I know the feeling after a catastrophic loss, to be so close and have it all just end.

We can't keep playing catch up as we have done for every season I've been here.

I always felt that I was, you know, smart. I just didn't have a lot of the resources that everybody else had... It was tough for me to catch up.

I took a couple footballs to the face before I learned to catch.

We all need God in certain ways, you know. And I certainly fall short in a lot of categories. And it's at those times that I need much more help than most.

People put you into a category and if you don't fight it you're stuck there for the rest of your life.

I was never in the top category of anything. I was never on people's lists. I was never the potential anything!

One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.

As a member of a generation who have been subjected to much over-stimulation, it's hard to say I fit into any one category.

When guys change their category, they've got problems with that, problems with everything. Not everyone can be ready for that.