Quotes About Struggle

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I've done.

Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.

Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.

The toughest workout can never match the pain of being out of work.

Fighting evil, it's hard work.

I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.

Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

I had to work from a young age.

By the end of the 50s, everything began to collapse and, little by little, I lost all of my work. I lost Rex, the Wonder Dog and all the westerns.

A lot of times people have issues with me because they don't understand where I'm coming from and haven't seen the years and years of hard work and shows I've played.

It's hard enough to get things to work in a musical way.

I feel like all the artists that I really love, they've had a strong contingent of people who really hate their work as well.

In art, women could never get training. They couldn't get their work out into the world even when they could get training.

Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.

I was building my work, and it took me a long time. For a good five or six years I was just kind of bobbing around, doing everything and anything.

I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark.

Is it hot in the rolling mill? Are the hours long? Is $15 a day not enough? Then escape is easy. Simply throw up your job, spit on your hands, and write another "Rosenkavailer."

I really feel like I haven't had a job. Playing [baseball] and then doing television. I watched my mom clean houses and stuff, so that's work.

The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern work.

The only thing hard about being an actor is being out of work. So, when you get a job - that part ain't hard at all.

It's always a pleasure to see John. I'm fond of telling people that when I was a young actor in NY and had no work ,no money, you know the story because you're heard it before.

Where there is most labour there is not always most life.