Quotes About Struggle

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

I feel there is a curse on rock stars.

Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

We only see the glamour side of stars but not how they've achieved it.

Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets.

There are plenty of people in the world who have tried to be rock stars and have not gotten there.

Child stars have nothing. They have no choice.

Not many child stars make it out of Hollywood alive or sane, and at any given time there are at least three former ones having very public breakdowns.

Something we often struggle with on pictures is the right way to shoot live-action elements that are for an environment that's very complicated from a lighting standpoint. An example is a starship flying through an environment that's constantly changing.

If your life gets off to a rough start, just know this is helping you develop depth of personality and depth of character.

My dyslexia means I can't read for long periods or the letters start moving around on the page, giving me headaches.

It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.

Like many start-up stories, mine has been rocky.

My dad did everything he could. It was a start-up, and the banks didn't want to lend him enough money, so he mortgaged our house.

In my first start-up, I didn't get any salary for four years, so I had to move back with my parents.

We were always broke and always complaining about something and music came and gave us a reason. That's why we started Sepultura.

Divorce is hard enough when you're an adult - never mind when you're a child. That was probably when my shyness started, when I was at my shyest.

My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing.

I had little or no opportunity when I started out in life.

I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'

As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.

I started hustling at 12, my mother hustled ahead of me. I was only allowed to because they knew me.

When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

I started my career without fans.