Quotes About Struggle

Middle class families should not be forced to scrape by with less while oil companies get away with more.

If you had a friend going through a lot, you wouldn't give them a hard time for going through it. You'd be like, it's ok you're going through it. So offer yourself the same grace and dignity that you'd offer to others.

When you are coming out, you say it's for you. But when everybody says it's not OK, it becomes about that rather than about you. It disappointed me.

After I lost the first set, I was like, 'OK, I need to get help because I can't play this way.'

The failure of 'OK Jaanu' hit me hard.

We all, as actors, have to fight these battles, where it's like, 'OK, that's a little far-fetched.'

When I had no shoes I was comfortable - I used to run barefoot. When I wore shoes it was difficult. To run in shoes was ok, but at the beginning of my career it was hard.

Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.

My nightmare is that I don't want to be OK.

It's OK to stay at a job that you don't enjoy, because you're scared.

I've been told by people that it's okay to cry but, you know what, it's been used against me.

It's okay for me to be gay, but God didn't make me that way.

I guess more than anything, I just realized, okay, one day I had a home to live in and my family around me. The next day, I did not.

I really brought that with me: that people think gay people are disgusting... I remember thinking, 'Okay, I might be gay. But I won't tell anybody. Nobody will ever know.'

I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything wasn't okay.

There have been times where I've said, 'Jesus, I don't believe in you anymore, get out of here. I don't know. I don't even trust you.' And it's like, okay. And he's still hanging on.

I like playing characters that are true to life, and there's no guarantee that any of us are going to be okay, but we intend to be, and we take the time to try to be. I don't think it's any different for a character.

I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, 'I wish more people saw that' - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.

Vets are close to my heart, okay, and it's not only because I served, okay. It's because of what they go through, okay. A lot of these people have gave their lives, a lot of them have gave their limbs, okay, you know, that's a, that's a, that's a heap, you know.

Everything isn't just gonna be okay. It doesn't just have to be good.

Before you have a hit song, all you're doing is banging on the door and screaming, 'I've got something I want to play...' Now with the hit songs, they're like, 'Okay man, we're listening. Whaddya got for us?'

I was a Depression kid, growing up in Oklahoma.

The more the years go by, the more difficult it gets. I'm getting old.

Both my parents developed dementia in their old age. Everyone I know whose parents had dementia feel that they didn't deal with it very well.