Quotes About Struggle

When I was 20 and ran my first race, I told myself I don't know how I'm going to do this for a living. I don't have the money to do it. But it is what I want to do.

Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

It took a long time to get out of my contract. The producers thought I was negotiating for more money.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

I thought you had to give up a lot for art, and you did. It required complete concentration. It also required that whatever money you had had to be put into art materials.

When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.

I've been in a situation where I was after the money.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.

I look back on my life and it's 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It's no way to live.

If you have enough money to be comfortable it makes life a lot easier and that's undeniable. But I think happiness is more elusive.

I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.

Many of the greatest black athletes of all time played baseball for no money and no recognition. I'm just sorry many major league fans never got to see them play, because many of them were awesome.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.

I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.

Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant.

Perhaps the greatest difference among people is between those who never have to worry about money and those who do.