Quotes About Struggle

I'm always feeling like I have to do some bad action movie for money.

The labels can't do anything for a band anymore - they're stuck and they have no money and they're just holding onto contracts that have existed from a time where there were resources.

It's amazing that no matter how much money you have, you can make some bad decisions, and in five months you're on the street, begging.

I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.

I used to love fast food because I had no money, and I was a struggling actor.

When I was young, it was easier to make films. It wasn't as expensive, there was more support. I found that I couldn't get the money to make films.

I've been making music ever since, but it was never something I thought I could make any money doing.

It's pretty easy to lose money on tour - most bands do on their first couple of tours. We're more established, but I think it was just poorly booked. It was a mess from the get-go.

God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was.

To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.

Two-thirds of all the strifes, quarrels, and lawsuits in the world arise from one simple cause-money.

I won't cry cause I live to die, with my mind on my money and my guns in the sky.

The woman had a humble, cringing manner. Of course, she had discovered that, having neither money nor virtue, she had better be humble if she knew what was good for her.

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

It doesn't necessarily always come down to race in the music industry. It can be whoever has the most money, has the most power, and that's really the struggle - dealing with how crazy money is.

Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.

No one was jumping up and saying, 'Yeah, let me give you money.' I had never held a camera in my hand - a home video camera, nothing. I had not directed.

I left drama school and went straight into a 10-week film for which I was paid £75 I might say, which for 1962 was one heck of a lot of money.

Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing; put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.

I had been practicing for the Depression a long time. I wasn't involved with loss. I didn't have money to lose, but in common with millions I did dislike hunger and cold.

It's tough. Gymnastics isn't basketball or football or baseball, where you can get these huge contracts and make a lot of money.

When I was in jail I could only think about what the average person has to go through - the person who has no power to go to the press or no money to hire a lawyer.

I've struggled with money when I could have had a little more if I'd just taken the damn job.

My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.