Quotes About Struggle

When I booked 'This Is Us,' I had 81 cents in my bank account.

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.

I respect people that find writing easy, because I have focus problems. I'll spend five days eating cereal and YouTubing and two hours writing the article.

No matter how good of an actor I am, I can't un-act having cerebral palsy.

Life is very tough for women. When you are a certain age, you are left alone at home with no one to share your life with.

It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.

As a fighter I hold a certain level of pride and can only deal so much with the politics.

For people who have done comedy after a certain point in time, I think there's a base level of, 'O.K., I think I'm decently funny.' But unless you just have some massive ego, I really think you're still fighting against that.

People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there.

We all struggle in life at a certain point.

At a certain point, you get banged up a lot.

There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy.

When people don't know who you are, they're seeing your work for the first time. But if they've seen a lot, getting certain things across is a more difficult.

I didn't want to hurt my parents' feelings about how hard certain things were in my 20s, how hard it was when my dad left my senior year before I went to college.

The league wants certain things. They want certain guys. I'm just not one of them. But I can't help the way I am.

Life isn't a store where you just go in and be like 'Oh, Ima get that.' It's a process. Especially if you don't really know how to acquire certain things.

And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use.

It's such a tough business. And once people see you a certain way, it's really hard for them to change their minds about you.

There's a lot of pressure on women to look in a certain way. It's not easy to live in a world that objectifies women.

I think the dance world is really hard, we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to look a certain way, and so that was a battle that I had to figure out for myself.

Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.

After I lost to Chad Mendes, that was a point in my life when everything had changed, I really didn't know why I was fighting anymore, for a brief amount of time.

If you are a junkyard dog, you assume that that's what life is: chained up, barking all day.

The biggest challenge for me was Get Rhythm. I don't know why.