Quotes About Struggle

Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done.

In America, it stands out, because it's raw, it's big, it's emotional. My face is raw, big and emotional. It didn't work for the longest time.

A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.

Hey sister, you're just moving too fast, you're screwing up the quota.

Committing great work does not necessarily feed you.

I felt like I did lots of crappy work in the past. I can't even tell.

Low pay generally means harder work under worse conditions.

Considering the amount of work I put into each piece, the amount I need to make from it is pretty high. I won't sell for less... but that means I rarely sell.

Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.

Part of what I do comes from the fact that I don't know any jokes to tell. And when I do they're really flat and don't work.

We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we're slip sliding away.

Doing 'EastEnders' wasn't exactly suffering, but my soul's not in quick-fix TV. Theatre doesn't pay like TV work pays, though. We all have to live, don't we?

There are a lot of actors out there who've made one or two films and who never work again.

I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.

I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to get a job with a trade.

Some people just have a natural gift and some people really have to work at it and I'm more of the second kind. I always had to grind it out, where from him it just flowed.

The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to get through.

I am a psychologically disabled person and it's difficult for me to get and hold down a job. When I don't work people accuse me of being lazy, taking advantage of government money

Actors always think that others are getting more work than them. In my case, they usually are.

You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened. Your co-workers ask if everything's okay and you tell them you're just tired. And you're trying to smile. And they're trying to smile.

My father offered me a dollar for every pound I would lose as a kid. It didn't work. And it doesn't really work in the long run.