Quotes About Struggle

I don't want to have my life fall apart for my work.

All that waiting around for a glimmer of stage time, just getting angry every week... It was just an oppressive, horrible, horrible place to be. I went to work feeling nauseous.

I understand professionals have to work when they don't feel like it, and I certainly don't feel like it. So maybe this will put the nail in the coffin for my acting career.

I know so many amazing actors who don't get work... and then there are a bunch of real duds that work all the time. The industry is just not fair in that way.

I have this internal battle between, I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids. And the kids win.

I've been married twice and I've tried to make it work, but I feel I haven't had a real marriage yet.

I therefore have to use The Force. And weirdly, this doesn't work very well. I don't understand why, because on the last census, I put my religion down as Jedi Knight.

All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.

Screenplays are the hardest thing to try to get right. They look so simple when they work, but they really destroy your brain cells trying to get them there.

Women in New York have to work much harder to compete with the supermodels for attention.

I'm disappointed. I played my heart out and it didn't work.

You come out hurting all over, and what didn't hurt, didn't work.

The wino and I know the pain of back bustin'.

My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.

I try to use pain as fuel for my work.

After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.

In talking about my cancer with family and friends, I feel the love that I know will get me through this. The old strategy of suffering in silence could not have been more misguided.

Compromise is not such ignoble and deplorable a thing as we generally think. It is rather an indispensable factor in the political strategy. Any nation that rises against the oppressors is bound to fail in the beginning and to gain partial reforms during the medieval period of its struggle through compromises.

My strategy is just to always compete. Even if they catch 10 balls on me, I make sure that they have to fight for every one of those. That's worked for me.

My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.

Every time I stray away from the Lord's word, I find emptiness and darkness.

More people are killed by stray bullets every day in America than have been killed by Ebola here. More are dying because of poverty and hunger.

I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.

Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to.