Quotes About Struggle

My dad was a movie star. Having that name was good and bad. People think it's a silver spoon. It's not.

Listen, my dad left me, my mom is crazy, I'm from L.A., a pop star dumped me three times and I'm an actress who gets rejected constantly.

If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence.

I was a weird-looking chubby, half-Asian kid who didn't have the pop star look.

I had some great high points and thought: 'This is fantastic. I'm going to be a huge star.' Then something happens, and you can't get a job to save your life.

I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.

I needed to become something besides the star everybody had built me up to be.

My favorite character in 'Star Wars' is Luke Skywalker, for sure.

I worked check-to-check, worked in dead-end jobs my whole life before I got into stand-up, and even during stand-up, I was working at a retail job and Starbucks, all those places.

Yet there are film stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra who never allowed the mafia to dictate terms to them. But starlets like Monica Bedi used the mafia connection to win stardom and is now paying heavily.

It's no new narrative to say that when people get out of child stardom, they oftentimes rebel in very serious ways.

It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

Child stardom is a really hard thing. It can really lead to bad things, and I think a lot of people have gone through that.

My journey was not hard because I have seen stardom and the downfall very closely in my career.

I feel when a new comer acts in his first film, he starts feeling top of world and nature changes due to the stardom. And then downfall starts to happen.

When I did 'Stardust,' I was fighting the studio for things I believed were right.

Cody put everything he could into the Stardust gimmick but that's not who he is, that's not who he ever is going to be.

It's easy to feel spurned, especially when you return to your apartment and stare at the hundreds of rejection letters tacked to your bulletin board.

I know you're supposed to love yourself, but I really hate the way I look. When I look in the mirror I'm so disgusted by the chocolate blancmange abomination staring back at me, I actually apologise to my wife for my physical appearance. I've got no backside, an overhanging belly and I'm so disproportionate.

Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.

We go to the office every day when we're writing - or supposed to be writing. It's not always productive, and there's a lot of procrastinating, just staring at the wall, like any other writing. But we just make ourselves go to the office every day for more or less the whole day.

As fighters, the stark reality is, there's times in that cage when we want out. There's times when we've had enough and we want out, and we're able to recognize defeat.

To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard.