Quotes About Struggle

One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.

I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .

Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park.

An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.

Hard work ain't so easy, strength training is just plain old hard work and it ain't easy.

I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative.

I certainly struggled when I was little and didn't have an easy time, so I try to put that stuff in my work.

I've always been counted out. I've always had people believing I didn't belong. I think that has made me work a little harder.

When I see the poor in India, it reminds me of the work that I have to do for them.

I don't enjoy the work that I do. It's just that it's not self-sustaining anymore. The way that I like to make records - they're expensive records to make and just can't afford to do it anymore.

I sort of pride myself in my dissatisfaction with my work. I've always been concerned with buying the hype, and having that make your performances suffer.

People wanted to get me published, and my early work was so weird that they weren't getting anywhere. I thought, okay, I'll do something that's just a tad more normal.

I had a stutter 'till... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood.

I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

What do you do when something you work on defeats you?

I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.

Sometimes as an actor you're struggling to make things work. That was never the case for me with [Big Little Lies script]. It just kind of flowed out.

I have a skill set that often helps me get through hurtful moments or experiences. However, sometimes when the pain cuts really deep, my normal go-to exercises just won't work.

It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work.

I'm an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work.

Sometimes you're not in the best environment. Sometimes you're not speaking the same language and it's not a good place to work. It's a lot to give, actually. And for not a lot of money.

I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.

You make a horror film that's not very good. You'd be joining a long line, in a long video aisle, of stuff that doesn't work.