Quotes About Struggle

I'm a lot of things, but none of them are great.

Money is a huge issue for manic depressives. Sometimes the problem is not nearly on the same scale as it has been for me, but nonetheless, it's difficult to deal with. Many get themselves into debt that can take years to clear up, write bad cheques, shoplift and borrow huge amounts from family and friends.

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

I don't want to be responsible for messing up someone. I don't want to be responsible for that, because the things that happened in The Verve, it was heavy stuff. It was real. It wasn't just frivolous nonsense, you know what I mean? There was real people's lives.

I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's the money?'

Mum worked nonstop, doing two, sometimes three, jobs throughout the 80s.

I lived across the street from Noodle Bar. I could barely stand it, because you're there all the time; you can't get away.

For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.

When my father went back into the military in 1947 and was gone for 3-1/2 years, my mother was 24 years old with four kids in a town she didn't know that well with no military services available, no family services available through the military, and that was the norm.

I can't be normal. I'm probably bipolar.

I still feel insecure all the time. I feel like it's just a part of being a human being... I just learned normal is very boring.

You know, for a normal kid it might be how to ask somebody out on a date or how to deal with the SATs or just how to deal with the bully down the block. And the X-Men have the conflict of Magneto or aliens or what-have-you.

Drugs made me feel more normal.

I'm just a normal working class boy from Belfast.

There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.

All I want to do is be normal. But really, it's other people who won't let me be that way.

All I've ever wanted is to be normal.

Sometimes I think, 'Why couldn't I have been normal?'

I started dieting. I dieted, dieted, dieted and tried all the diets and I would lose and then I would go back to normal eating and would put it on and then some.

When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.

I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.

I couldn't deal with a normal life.

I feel for anybody who has that level of celebrity where you can't lead a normal life.

From age 7 to about 37, I had a normal life and not a very easy one.