Quotes About Struggle

Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.

Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work.

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

Marriage is such hard work. And it's full of rage and real human drama.

I go to my studio every day. Some days work comes easily. Other days nothing happens. Yet on the good days the inspiration is only an accumulation of all the other days, the nonproductive ones.

The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work.

Musicians know all about unemployment. You're unemployed a lot, and I think there's a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are out of work.

Part of me says that no life will work if I can't make this one right.

They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.

Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success, and no longer putting out good work.

Seeing ahead is fun. But pushing is very hard work.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.

I went to drama school but it was very hard to get work until I was made assistant stage manager.

I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do, my work tends to suffer.

It's incredibly painful to think back to the time I had to come back to work. I was so, so needed at home. Like the vast majority of people in America, I couldn't take unpaid leave.

I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.

There are so many filmmakers who are so talented, and actors and writers who work so hard, and it's really hard to let your work enter the world.

My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I've always felt like I'm seeking his revenge.

Small unit democracy, I found early on, didn't work for me.

Every year you work in Hollywood takes a year off your soul.

I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

It's hard work being a person, you have to do it every single day.