Quotes About Struggle

I'm Hackney born and bred and find it hard to call anywhere else home despite the extreme ongoing gentrification which gets me down.

The Internet is a contest between people with the same name to be the person who dominates that online space.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

I was an only child, a hard-case kid, in a rough neighborhood. But I always fought my battles.

My dad was an only child. His father raised him all but alone after his mother abandoned the two of them. He was only three years old.

The God that can only love something like this man. And from then on it was all downhill.

There's only one thing people love more than their heroes, and that's stomping them into the ground.

I think the kids in school that laughed at the clothes that we wore and the house that we lived in, and then my mother had to cut hair... I think that was a good motivator. Every time they laughed at me, they just built a fire, and there was only one way to put it out - to try and show 'em I was as good as they were.

It doesn't make sense that there is only one way of dealing with cancer.

The only time I really enjoyed myself before was when I was training. Besides that, everything else was an absolute nightmare. It was all about self.

I have been in my fair share of both onscreen and off screen fights.

You don't need to exorcise your personal demons onstage.

I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

When I started out in the late '80s, my act was pretty terrible, and for years, I kind of toiled in obscurity. I don't believe in a hierarchy in comedy; I feel that a person deserves respect the first time they get onstage, and after that, they just have to be funny and get more consistent.

These guys were always saying, 'The minute you get onstage, it's great, no matter how much you're hurting.' But that didn't work for me. There were some nights I did not want to get out there.

I talk to people now, and they thought I was so confident. I was doing all this awesome stuff onstage, and they didn't realize I was going through so much loneliness and hurt backstage. It was like high school.

I talked with labels and they wouldn't help with my international career. They said, 'Saara, if you're in Finland you just have to sing in Finnish.' That led to this situation where I felt very lonely. I was really sad and still I was doing gigs all the time. I'd go onstage crying but I was still trying to sing.

I think I've had a bit of a stop-start career. I came onto the scene quite early, and then I paused for a bit.

Illness transforms the things you most fear into the things you crave and would hold onto if you could.

Those years between drama school and getting onto the stand-up circuit were pretty lean.

Show business is like a bumpy bus ride. Sometimes you find yourself temporarily juggled out of your seat and holding onto a strap. But the main idea is to hang in there and not be shoved out the door.

Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.

I sort of latch onto roles that have something to fight against.

From Day One, I've always had to work to find my way onto the court or onto the top position or whatever it may be.